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生命就是小甜饼:
6 B' D: K+ J1 w3 KOne 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.0 E/ ]5 g! T" Q
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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”。
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.6 r& H3 D& ]+ _- H" |+ F

; @' B4 Y, z1 `- p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。
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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.0 I6 ~" o$ j% P! {/ V& w

7 q0 a) z$ m* h) R# U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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. Q# p9 v/ |' W$ k- GA 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.( G6 r0 v2 n, o: h% t4 l  P

- m9 e4 b. K+ Q8 {# u* l) V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。
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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.
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" ^, P, O. B( H: c& }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。
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' L* J0 J3 z& b  j* _" p8 _  BBut 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.
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3 _8 \9 w9 b# B8 F0 E/ g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。. u% k) I2 e' q+ G' W3 d4 M

  T/ {" P+ p- k! x; KThe 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.
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# k, Z& b+ h7 M" }- M4 c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。$ f4 ~* k/ R1 G; ^" N# [4 q

1 P  o: [8 H# g5 {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. 4 X1 x( T0 [9 f# }
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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 y1 z, G2 I, ?; y

5 _4 P% c6 s, ^; \You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.5 N) t8 `- L( ~2 W0 ^7 v- R
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你忙于不让自己失去它,甚至没有时间享受它。3 T) Z; ~/ Z. T( f7 S! O

% n; Y: s# i0 }  X- [, |& y" ZHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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% j4 @  w. Z- e& C% b# U* k9 t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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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. "
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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。9 S$ N+ c/ T' m. I
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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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。; @& s! T& U2 F3 q

+ M+ _9 ~7 {: e# r* n, c* |( J) @Life. 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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