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生命就是小甜饼：- ^ ]" v3 T8 v+ H: ^
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.0 f' {3 ~7 p, @6 k
. L, }8 _$ T: D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”。0 }- ?2 I" e4 y
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.4 K- U2 ^# G7 f6 n) ~7 c& r
+ P% k9 ~( n7 l* Q2 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。% p. N! t* N+ m" }
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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.* ~5 u! O" M; m
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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。8 B+ L- E, \5 t& O
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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.
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% l5 Q$ u+ L8 p3 ]8 u% K/ }! T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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0 L6 q) h: }- E: Q2 hWhen 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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0 y, c2 j& N* K" p2 CBut 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.. R- S, }' t( g8 Y+ R y! |
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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.
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* G4 h# j# T6 Z) q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。. I+ c# |3 E+ r
5 j, l* {2 h. W0 zYou 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. / J. n/ }# V5 {, b
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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。: }" [: x0 r* x! i! l
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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.
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/ O5 U) F* ~9 @0 P* l/ [2 ?你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。# m0 f: o6 m7 L$ y
- Q* F6 y+ b g# h3 d" uHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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+ c0 d. \7 ~2 e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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% d5 U8 A* T. `/ @& A* fFor 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。$ f1 C0 X, k6 G* a% L* r' O! a5 f
. v/ |, \* I) x; L$ TTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important." D4 g( Z2 p9 \# r
+ N1 j2 Y, Z1 A4 l" c4 Q9 l* O“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。4 ]. a5 U1 R" v
- w: z1 ]- L( |9 A1 }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."6 {, V0 l, \5 e! A# S' ]1 k
- i8 f4 j! }( Q `) l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”。. U7 p" y6 p, S. Q0 t9 T3 U
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