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生命就是小甜饼：1 ~0 \6 v4 B& t0 y6 Q C, z
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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' l; u( Q$ o' {2 z g4 H1 S k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”。( {" ^$ k" V: Y: \
% w n% r2 F' l, r) H- W: MIf 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。; e0 N6 y; ?9 c9 ^! [
, }! X" C9 L1 ?3 m2 wSome 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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T x6 s e* A- x* G/ n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。( y8 D X' X$ S9 q. \2 J; J% K) o
7 _) X+ V6 m. D& S- ?6 eA 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.* g% j4 S: m# O. u! I
& k, c, F; M% Q) ^( l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。* W. k L) _/ B% q/ a+ M; D
8 D9 `1 z( W; S- W# yWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.3 U- C' Y9 F2 l" f% T1 X
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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.- X) b" ~& S2 `6 U
, Y: k1 a }, a" p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。- F3 _$ ]/ t# g& N+ d: E" D
m& |2 ]% K$ ?/ GThe 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.5 R A* n: d( ~3 U4 u
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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。
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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. ) z: |4 s* [7 N( {9 b, @' Q
, w0 B3 j9 p! M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。- i* g& N4 H5 v
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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.( m1 b0 U/ B6 D
# v6 i& x9 ?2 q3 T你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。! M( Z, V5 _9 G" m
3 c' D& i7 K8 R$ C. y% A! GHaving 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。' w2 r# D( L+ K' ?
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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. "! e+ d( p5 O- B1 |6 c- k" Q
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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, X1 `& E6 q
5 C5 ], S9 @' [% ?* D* lTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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; \" H- m/ t3 T/ [5 X“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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1 \# ], k3 \ P, L' LLife. 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."; G/ d5 ]. e* X _* g7 [
; v. ^+ _( G% Z/ B" j- Q$ N, ]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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