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生命就是小甜饼：) p3 w5 D2 q# 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.' |. G- e n, [+ J! R# `9 I3 H
' w9 _" R( E3 ~7 N' L' W6 ~7 M/ C7 O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.; b. U* x! h) x! Z" {& `
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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。6 c! I, [4 T# i9 U2 }/ n
. K. t/ i1 T' D4 U9 e% f, GSome 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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6 S5 B+ L( K6 c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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7 n# M5 J e7 D. `4 _ g; [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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7 W: @0 t# ]- N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。: I3 s' {- ~9 Z# y6 p5 q5 B0 L0 n. ?
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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./ l5 \9 F7 |# d' \7 o. U/ x( e
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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。/ \( ]3 n5 Y" f i3 [: z
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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.1 ~( ]1 S8 B* A' Q3 R. L6 \: @8 z
# S; e8 a! L; I! v: A3 X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。# P1 w- L9 K6 A$ [. [/ ]0 Q& Q
. D# j3 S4 }1 b4 o4 d9 IThe 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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; f: A: x/ f0 a3 n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。$ y5 ^, c }, ~4 \$ V
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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. 5 s4 ]+ }' [" L2 B2 n# O
! E/ |5 X% V3 s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。% y( i' A$ a2 W9 o0 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.: u; |* U7 y( g7 Y
3 Y0 @( V! ]/ D你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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+ h2 R1 t Y7 D% B8 V# fFor 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。, {% U$ M! N9 c2 |/ I/ V0 @
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.1 P; w3 `" D( }$ Y9 H- ?
- u5 f/ o( K2 v/ m S; ?- O“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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t# A3 m) S9 S5 o& MLife. 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."% \$ n) x [* s5 k( u) H
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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”。# `% ~0 z, k4 ]- e$ s2 d0 ^
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