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生命就是小甜饼：( H" G* q7 K9 p" {4 c& ]; G& c7 ^
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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: A: k7 V5 E+ t4 [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”。! d% l3 p8 ?! C
% P0 D3 N0 h. P- @$ F V0 j8 xIf 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。4 n* L5 l8 M- U/ {
3 _6 V0 z4 w7 N1 l9 n! JSome 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。4 L$ q0 k/ v# M' s/ k4 r
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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.( `3 _- q0 c3 d) ^
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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。 h6 E7 k* C8 [# t6 U
5 f/ ?; n f2 [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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: ^2 z0 ~# t; V) m2 {- N0 I, w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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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。; _6 x3 Q% `) ^- r8 m0 u3 q
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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. `0 V1 K" x( o& k! i6 h1 X h5 N+ o& p1 Z
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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 \& o4 [9 z5 U# P Q
, D, f: I1 s2 q" [8 h X9 aYou 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. z& @! y( ]+ {+ Q0 V+ z' D, H
3 ?' `- Z# s9 h5 x, g& _- u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。
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% I2 C- e" J+ o7 LYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it./ \& Q5 Y# Z5 c6 s8 S. V2 H5 X
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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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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.4 e2 _4 O2 y& M: k
: I7 I \" k) E7 {& p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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, h* Y. i. t6 e* ?/ yFor 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. "; L4 c+ ~( B6 T4 c; y5 D |
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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。' f; T6 M; K/ k
% C; O& U. b3 N" M4 FTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.- g1 S! z3 ~2 C, k4 E( l- C1 L
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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。
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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."
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: h% g k- k# C: r/ H3 Y5 f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”。1 L) f! |& _+ [5 T9 k' V
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