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生命就是小甜饼：
2 @3 E! E7 @7 Q; f: w+ U8 ?" C( A/ oOne 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.; P. s% f0 i/ J2 T& n6 M- C5 i' X
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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”。0 k6 ]7 h+ B: G+ D0 D5 D a: _
* y% V& j+ h9 ~! w Q. v WIf 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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! z3 U9 N) {, C& rSome 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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4 v$ L8 r+ E m; `, 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.
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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。
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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.$ ?$ q1 j8 R" d! {- _. y2 J
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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。( t% u+ _3 w7 r+ m
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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.9 O* h$ e w* {
# L, _- ~5 O3 d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。+ J( S B. N; e! \; [# @3 u, X7 b
( [# J& U% M& @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.
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' R/ x9 v% U0 T) J7 R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。3 `" e* Z4 ^/ e+ L
* d( C, ]/ W5 ?7 L& z5 y! O$ fYou 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. 1 d( A. u# ?- p. X4 q. U
# ~( ?5 B ^$ r% `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。) P1 Q: ~1 p+ _; n1 t
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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.4 q% [. `/ {: V Y
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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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5 w# I4 {2 B3 a4 d4 g6 K% K8 c8 UHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.0 Y% z9 ?- g6 u/ N
. B* Q; g# O x# 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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" _$ O( L$ {) z4 e6 y2 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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2 L/ Q: L4 N4 J: d; e' N v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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$ X% R6 x; e1 g+ N. _Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.5 A% A' ?: z8 E
- Q6 [6 v( n7 }; S" w3 l& ?“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。- x. [, o% P' O5 T* }! n" n: y
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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."( s0 b" I7 m1 w
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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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