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生命就是小甜饼：9 Z/ g; S* n7 D
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.
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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”。% r9 R/ m( E! ~4 V2 }3 q! L7 A2 E
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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。
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- k: [) w9 ^& |4 [6 Z# a9 ASome 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.$ j% t- R1 M& D! P+ L, N
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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。6 U6 S* E+ e- m* p v& L
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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.
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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。4 s) [- c3 h9 q/ q
. \9 P5 B, J- F) [+ E' Y( a3 \When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy., _1 x" m( _/ i2 {4 V
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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。; h) o" L7 ^% M
9 @; E1 V2 t/ j |" [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.
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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。
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& B7 C% [8 }9 V0 u$ }& Y6 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.
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( x9 {5 X5 \& }5 X5 @* k7 Q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。* P4 V+ s2 Y! P, g4 `# u6 j: x
; ^; J) A: k, e' C M, F8 c) c9 F# MYou 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. ! u! R$ U4 V+ H: t! z
3 a7 W1 B3 J4 F E! B2 Y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。3 W: ]* @, }. Y1 J* k6 M; [
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You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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- c2 L; G* J; y8 U) q2 @6 gHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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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。) T; [1 @" D. q$ o
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.' z8 W* H9 X; p
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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。9 |" }. A4 \3 I$ M ?! \9 Q
" F0 D- ?& C @+ G2 L% e. KLife. 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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$ k+ n$ u4 g2 W! I. | d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”。* [3 v8 |4 V4 `' p
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