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生命就是小甜饼：: k" ?" ]% U2 l
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.' n+ @8 ~! m; L! Q L& g" P
" v8 Y3 `) s& i4 M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”。% H" z/ T4 v8 e/ A d( ?
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.3 H( G1 J, h, k, P/ V, I, ]
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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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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.
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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。* L9 G& |6 T* g' O6 x
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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.# Z- ] O$ k X) e9 N0 W
5 o E+ K: D9 q, d4 I# B2 V8 m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.6 V- v1 [. H! \+ p) z+ P$ P) \
/ e, a/ a' v' C1 m( k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。4 B- r# l' Z/ a2 [3 ~ ]
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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。
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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." n* H3 n4 H5 q I
4 g9 @2 O# D2 X; H8 l4 V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。
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1 a' A. j# N7 q! z# G0 |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. # G! s' p }9 l/ Y& ]. I3 ?+ g, ]6 _
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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。
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) }# E: n y- B' H2 k% y' DYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.% n+ j) E3 I" J' r ^. N
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。* g8 M0 e' [8 O
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.9 m7 e( v- Z7 n: Y K# f8 p, |/ @
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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。) k1 |$ q$ Y& L4 h) g; v
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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. "- f- J" T p/ D
: u7 ?+ X% n4 S. P# L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。' s7 c$ A/ Q/ n% J t, g7 I
9 f; z! f8 P' @2 d/ uTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important." D \3 I/ D# I: G# I7 { {
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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。: `$ n, t( u1 b( Y, {
; G) D5 E; H7 o+ B( pLife. 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."1 B3 O- N; y4 U1 r$ g* ]
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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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