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8 Y; `6 v7 b" k' `生命就是小甜饼：% M* m/ U5 v; {
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。, v# n- M% L, ^ q, A2 j+ A4 |
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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./ d$ [8 {' r" Z3 h4 ~) X
" r& c) F" t7 m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 X! e" U6 `! N5 a
; i8 d8 H8 u! v& _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.. g% m* t [9 k8 _
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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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! u0 ~& R0 J: d' T: {- _When 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.! s2 M Y- l7 O+ r: Z
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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。, L+ L$ B4 r- J" C) r
( K; w/ k3 Q$ ?+ WThe 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.$ v( w/ A, G. x
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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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% M5 P6 E9 H9 K- FYou 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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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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: L/ `) }, j; q3 h% x, W9 UYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.2 t6 `% W: [$ z X
1 n+ u- x4 q* J$ z6 c9 S x7 h你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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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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+ q7 U* p4 S. 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。% F8 M5 J+ q1 f- m3 N6 W
9 V+ R; r2 d3 \0 |. E' q5 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. "$ l' y; D; f7 X
, D2 \$ t& Q9 E5 a' k: B, U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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" G3 L+ G5 H; qTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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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。$ ~: R# k f% ~
$ n B3 u* F. w/ ~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.". O5 J6 [: M: u
7 e0 A! Y/ ^1 s. k5 I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”。: O/ E \6 w) `
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