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生命就是小甜饼：
& c( C- p }1 d+ M. {9 t) |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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# h( N! y! M# P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”。8 r( F: U- D1 V
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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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7 U+ L0 t g( L0 x# m" H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.( O( x' g+ i. h9 a! I B
. Z6 j b4 X0 w- @6 e3 Z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。9 U8 `: o7 ]8 {" G0 C3 c
- b1 g V* y$ `) tA 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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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。. h0 k+ Q7 {2 c g1 s) f
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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。8 |: w4 m+ J& s
! \- K4 [: o) G3 g# X5 b) c' z- kBut 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.& X* `3 s7 b* s* k. C8 B, `0 V
5 c$ k7 L1 M3 ~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。% ^, u) D+ Y& Q. M* [# \2 A
4 e3 T, E; l$ B. _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.8 i/ f4 v. x- i6 i, q+ ^
8 `9 g7 }: _# Q* A3 z& U: \! ^1 P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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/ E, I; Q" h1 u b' \- PYou 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.7 b, C! W4 Q0 e+ ]2 t& ?5 u$ G; n- n
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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5 X5 m _' O4 i2 R/ ZHaving 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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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. "
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' b( q- a( ]/ W+ ~" ?. I/ ~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。: e- X, {3 I4 F& o+ v1 B' W
$ P. _0 m# i5 e' {7 K gTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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3 k O) z6 c6 ~! w0 q“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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5 F* Z: r" l5 A" W( GLife. 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."+ I4 d# D. E5 _
' t1 e: H# w0 z- C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”。, y1 k1 ^& A5 o2 ^. o
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