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生命就是小甜饼：$ t* u- ]" V7 u, }, k
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”。
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If 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。
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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.2 z+ `( S6 ]' V( S5 r5 p
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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。5 e! a$ Q5 U8 { x# G6 H
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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.$ J2 A! r; w9 d. E1 d: O
! x- s! v& r$ v3 r/ u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。6 {2 [) C8 v) e o$ U/ C
) ~3 z1 _/ @, t4 J, Y# R; J: w0 X; OWhen 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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7 \+ A' a; V& ~0 R4 u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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+ r8 K6 `0 f" Z7 iBut 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.8 E# h) K7 y( ?$ S* Q3 }
: S2 S0 B( [. D) I7 @" T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。# \5 B, u2 B4 Z2 z( M _* X3 h
& q+ I# F1 b \6 c* L$ ^/ JThe 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。
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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. ( x# P. A, F; _8 v5 I
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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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You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.% ^6 l6 l& h( N! v: K4 l0 N
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。8 n. {3 C' u* ^; h$ `4 Q9 Q
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him., U+ F5 i; r1 k! t* x
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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。
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) i$ h4 g. V Q4 i% rFor 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. "1 f3 P i" v* e. |: C* K4 j; A1 K
: [! a2 i, ?$ m; Z0 y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。/ N; [7 Q" ^5 ~$ m# a) ]
7 r9 B" q7 c& o8 G# P8 jTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.) z: K# [7 c2 s+ J2 U* W
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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。' M5 f, A4 l- f+ J7 {
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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."! p ~7 v! \) D, i
7 Q# X0 M) F4 j( i6 E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”。) G3 T. r. w5 S6 H& [
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