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生命就是小甜饼：6 G5 V [2 ~: d, R' B, Y/ B# `/ A1 P
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”。; ^6 x! v" z' v, [7 K
1 ~1 K. \4 l4 Y1 a# N: ]6 m) J* s0 r5 y9 jIf 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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- z8 M4 Y/ W( U" ]! 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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2 I/ ?% q: s1 t; s7 l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。
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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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4 E5 x5 U4 Q8 C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。5 g8 n; C9 q+ P. w. @) a1 n, q# M+ ?, n0 ~; m
5 ?1 v" H# m& BWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.! M& Q T" k' j# y0 f
& k' _* p- ]' N6 p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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4 s) m% G2 {: ~; z! f: E( p2 SBut 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.1 `) y% J0 G! I: l9 N; {) S
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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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& D4 O7 S* ~' R) Y F8 z, `- K/ ^+ }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.: v$ L* p, W" ?
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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。6 t2 e( B; X) d0 K
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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.
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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." _1 ?" ]5 B, S# Z- n
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。( |1 E8 C- M; D: K/ P
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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。
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) g' b' N- h' D" ^" N$ hFor 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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: g0 {8 `4 ?7 P# r! E- ?9 {- 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。! x4 @. W* w" p- o( A7 x
. y- q; |( Z$ m3 n1 bTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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% M# s: T/ K+ I. U1 X5 d! A“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."
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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”。
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