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生命就是小甜饼：, X0 }3 n) S( J, o% _
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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- C ]9 z3 B2 Z8 L- m/ f0 R8 m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”。, ]' P* E$ ?) J0 w" W. `
U1 m' [3 x/ q% h3 i+ XIf 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.: k! O0 A" W! k( _
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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。, M9 }5 g& {4 ]$ L: @, l! K% [
" Y5 w- j5 Q8 Q, i9 ~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.% s& k3 i. `0 h% k0 _0 i q( I* b
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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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, Z$ O, v) C4 }4 SWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.$ P! m3 h2 i3 `/ h; P" a
1 y/ n. v8 p9 I; F" d6 d5 K0 D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。6 {5 r( V( d) X+ B" v
% [. w M3 M {# X6 [1 dBut 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.9 P- P0 e- r5 P* S+ ~7 S4 w$ K
1 R! Y# |. V: a+ R9 r, a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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7 F7 u5 f1 `7 B* {2 C( rThe 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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) m- i6 @% m. N/ K0 i0 v$ _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. 0 t- h; x. K8 G& A+ ]+ [
9 y. X( h) l0 Y0 K# n$ B# }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。* W5 J3 C" K3 {* V* g- A* @7 P* R2 l
2 H. m4 W, p3 kYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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3 N' p6 ?- n) w! z4 h+ T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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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。+ X2 k- f! c% }1 |2 L9 V
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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. "/ b: m# v$ [0 E1 m8 @/ T+ p
0 X1 E3 Y/ s. S6 j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。# S& e2 j( K8 f3 i. r2 V5 i! A
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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& s* I2 }9 o. H8 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。
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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."/ u! X) b+ f' g* X2 w% `; }
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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”。* _' q. e8 H! @3 d# k
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