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生命就是小甜饼：- A! L( S4 C# R$ ]4 \; x4 n0 g
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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) _( _+ T+ E3 n9 a5 u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”。6 m$ C# P7 D6 Z" v: _0 G
6 K& S/ P, e* r4 r9 Q0 Z6 ZIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.9 t! {6 ]: s3 [
) M6 {2 [+ l- a6 x0 S$ x- ^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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( Q) C) D8 Z2 C7 `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。! W! B# o/ o( _, c/ 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.. O2 T* T! w; 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。+ ]4 F+ b" I. W- ]% O1 ?
4 D, [, a: [/ Q& k4 n* F6 F; qWhen 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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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.# k1 g( R, m! M
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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。# B& \: u+ w6 F6 D5 ~
- ^, R, b) m0 N2 ]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.- g: u! L5 g& x: [
1 j) _: ]& d P0 w8 ^4 A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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' A3 ]* ~* n O: `# t. x* [7 ^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. 3 H* R: N. e) K% \4 M
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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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F# |1 @- E9 s5 _; ~* v; T! xYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.: w% N, m: g1 i% j. E) t
. [7 O. @4 e, ]8 W你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。8 d. M0 J. K {8 D9 k; R
7 a3 H5 n4 a2 OHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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: p( ^ Q$ n% f J7 ~! |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。) b6 S- F7 }8 v# L
5 _; Z. h9 Q. M3 ~5 n' ZFor 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。
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.3 R9 u* s! k/ m2 p) {
/ G, |+ a5 C4 q% h& x! c3 j: 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。3 G# Q; _ ?$ Y: h& s
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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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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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