4 i4 |- h! B* t0 i; g生命就是小甜饼： 9 K- X4 E+ z% a4 f+ pOne of my patients, a successful businessman, tells me that before his cancer he would become depressed unless things went a certain way. Happiness was "having the cookie." If you had the cookie, things were good. 7 s. g# Q& S! H# k) P . P8 x) ~% f0 A* m Y我有一位病人，他是一个成功的商人，告诉我，在他患癌症之前，凡事如果没有确定下来他就忧心忡忡。对他而言，幸福是“拥有小甜饼”。 " y* p& j8 [2 k$ E4 X6 ]; F! v- J0 |+ g3 y8 a2 k1 r, T
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 4 F+ h' N. c/ W, h- F$ F) N: d& P7 i2 v( f+ N8 t
如果你拥有了小甜饼，一切都一帆风顺。如果你没有小甜饼，生活就一文不值。 ) s% T8 ?4 y; {; j/ F* Q/ ]9 s L2 [ [) K# v" w
Some of the time it was money, sometimes power, sometimes sex. At other times, it was the new car, the biggest contract, the most prestigious address.' I4 h% N0 a+ @
5 W- Z5 t1 A ?- _; q不幸的是，小甜饼总是不断变换着，有时是金钱，有时是权力，有时是欲望。在其他时候，它是一辆新车、一份数额最大的合同、或者一个享有声望的通讯地址。0 c6 C5 t9 G8 H) K
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A year and a half after his diagnosis of prostate cancer he sits shaking his head ruefully. "It's like I stopped learning how to live after I was a kid. / y$ X; q! `, m 5 X) Q; Z) y* j. ?, n) o( w在他被诊断出患有前列腺癌的一年半之后，他坐在那里，悲天悯人地摇着头，说：“长大以后，我好像就不知道怎样生活了。* M5 O' v% V& |% J# V/ A0 {
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When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.: J/ j% \. j" A |
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当我给我儿子一个小甜饼时，他心花怒放。如果我拿走甜饼或者是小甜饼碎了，他就闷闷不乐。% c7 A3 e$ C/ m6 B# U) L
( n' x6 U# Q# c" fBut he is two and a half and I am forty-three. It's taken me this long to understand that the cookie will never make me happy for long.; t& q3 p- m# C: K$ K7 w& B+ ]
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不同的是，他只有两岁半，而我已经 43 了。我花了这么长的时间才明白小甜饼并不能使我长久感到幸福。 4 p7 O* G) c# z7 }2 m7 }/ g* n& Z K6 I# h) v/ p
The minute you have the cookie it starts to crumble or you start to worry about it crumbling or about someone trying to take it away from you.2 n6 K' _8 }) d$ T
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从你拥有小甜饼的那一刻，它就开始破碎，或者你就开始担心它会破碎，抑或你开始担心别人拿走它。* D* K0 F. D2 c/ O2 n9 I( [, X
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You know, you have to give up a lot of things to take care of the cookie, to keep it from crumbling and be sure that no one takes it away from you. 2 n, B Q. g, H3 f, M( k/ k- o0 d; J: B. v! H. u
为了守护你的小甜饼，为了防止它破碎或者确定别人不会从你手中夺走它，你不得不放弃许多东西。0 }/ ]9 r- X2 s$ X' A* V
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& q- f2 z. {8 @3 zHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. " p' [; c; v9 F6 x. ?& K7 o5 e) I0 b' X K$ {1 H1 b
拥有小甜饼并不是生活的全部内容。”我的病人笑着说癌症已经改变了他。4 @) [$ v6 P7 A! g6 |5 c0 P8 A
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For the first time he is happy. No matter if his business is doing well or not, no matter if he wins or loses at golf. " ]4 ~* Q% p. ?. k- Z( P2 C$ P3 M4 k8 `% w7 i
不论他的生意是否一帆风顺，不论他在打高尔夫球时是输是赢，他有生以来第一次感到幸福。* I `7 d( e3 A& b
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.9 P; T% s: R0 S8 l
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“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。/ Q: [" G: @/ k2 ?' ~9 G# Z
4 B6 `% y- r; CLife. Life any way you can have it, life with the cookie, life without the cookie. Happiness does not have anything to do with the cookie; it has to do with being alive. Before, who made the time?" He pauses thoughtfully. "Damn, I guess life is the cookie." + ~% [) G S6 H( Y+ D; k9 j* m" Q
生命。生命，无论如何你拥有生命。有小甜饼也罢，没有小甜饼也罢，幸福与小甜饼并非息息相关，而是与生命的存在有关。可是，时光一去不复返，谁又能让时光倒流呢?”他停顿了一下，若有所思，说：“该死，我觉得生命就是那块小甜饼”。- w5 _5 M# m1 O; h( ~! m
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