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生命就是小甜饼：8 Y9 e. j) R- C4 V& M& \9 S3 f
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”。& w, \- c6 h( |7 G) S0 M! |! j7 a
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.' Q* F7 z7 J9 M( J E1 d
; c# W% l* k2 `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.% q1 t& Q4 C6 G7 f% g3 z' L2 \
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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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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.. K2 ?! M6 I& H, n% i/ U7 w
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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.2 y9 ]3 _! h' H6 z: K, d
7 H- a& D5 m+ R7 g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.6 B9 l% T5 N! y6 l7 i
( E) J! b1 X; i3 y! B* N7 {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.
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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。, _. B$ i, t7 y' i
4 j# ^ k: U- a$ `3 jYou 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.
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3 `! m [; O @7 p+ X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。' n; d: q# H+ J7 k5 w3 E1 K
8 I1 g% O* B+ ^You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.8 S# ^+ G8 j8 Q" W" d; I0 _
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。; B6 ` u+ N3 f' v5 W3 [
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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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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。* O" M9 s' A+ K' H+ Z
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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. "! d0 p5 {% E( _) R* k
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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。; Y6 z. r0 P7 F# u# Z& O
3 w! f# n6 H! R- {Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.3 H V$ u# V, a9 q4 }% I
2 @. Y& Z& N* \, i/ J, v“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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8 w( ^' m) H1 n' J6 V j1 v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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