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生命就是小甜饼：7 u3 I1 S8 F) f' D. e# ?
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.. X6 u6 c. s v$ K @
. v+ g Q9 S8 e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”。; T* E0 ?- C5 [( r# j+ N
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. X( V: p" u- i6 r! X, d# W9 H1 t
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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。* I- }$ Y3 W1 U' ?) f/ e
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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.
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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。2 K' ^2 L3 f; L, d. G4 |
6 A# V) @- P6 r; M+ wA 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.& `: K. m9 w d$ J ^ e
3 ]& F1 E# @) V9 \4 }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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) x' x$ S) \9 Z- l1 h# F& ~When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.1 g. Y0 c( n# H
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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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+ Y7 p* c9 O1 Y. p8 n& z3 D: ~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.* @$ m! z" b, p3 G+ P9 D
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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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$ X k8 d, S# p% Z: H* |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。" S# P& h7 k L4 p9 o
' \, l/ J; x8 r) {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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8 a# ~- h X, t% ]& z" `You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.2 X/ I' `6 x5 [
7 s( r. w( s& m% C0 s你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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( l- y! D1 N) N K, a- p6 MHaving 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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4 v6 z' J. S( q* U' n& F, 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。2 b- y3 |& J/ A& D/ ~, [! d
9 S- u# s7 d; j: O4 ETwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important./ U& ]) Z2 \8 f7 \& \) A9 H
5 b" S# n5 A2 y! x' {/ i“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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