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生命就是小甜饼:- N. M2 `( o  @' u
One 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.6 A/ A$ z- f! s; L6 A$ c
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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”。8 R7 h, X7 O" Z" U
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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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。3 s! Q, {; e+ u3 Q( X; }$ h5 o! H

; k9 N( r% b. V+ }0 b+ \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.
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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。
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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.# X+ C4 U7 Z* h# p' |9 N  U: ~

8 {2 h7 X1 \6 j, `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。+ Q& F. E# X6 e/ Q7 c

: m' q/ m1 `" QWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.
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% g( E( o8 ^# d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。) D# d/ l. O9 C9 @
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But 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., y- `  \" W8 L5 \

, ~! [! b5 T: T8 Q3 ^& T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。
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$ V0 f) B2 w7 x( i  q: ~, LThe 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.& e2 R: f' C6 V' [
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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。7 \6 j6 d7 T6 ]% Z5 O& O4 i
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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.
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/ A+ ]( S( M' D4 F* A# k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。! I( H0 ^, Q  [4 g6 K6 P: F

5 @' k$ K* H- K7 cYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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你忙于不让自己失去它,甚至没有时间享受它。
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  Y  X7 R5 d; b2 G9 P! X- r3 P+ k( Z# KHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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5 F- B6 f2 y% A7 L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。
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& m# h8 t7 Y: H" J- O8 ]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. "" v+ T3 N0 ]9 b. U

' W+ R4 X, ~( d' N2 |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。
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6 q- x9 Z/ ]% Z8 V: hTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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. G+ m% X" b% s+ I3 a" R& U$ C' ]“两年前,癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对,生命重要。
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: U0 |4 g) ?" g8 M* eLife. 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."
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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”。
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