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生命就是小甜饼：* u# n' Y5 Y! g0 Z$ \6 F
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”。$ g; a3 O$ V! s1 Y. Z, q: X
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.- Y0 G* k! v# a" V' d/ C& B8 k( P
6 j+ z, H& N c3 O' L, ~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。% |4 Z! u) _# ]0 n4 o. U6 i f7 i6 W
0 c7 l1 D. ^0 y9 k3 \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.1 f9 u* J. ]& L8 K" J8 E& i! @/ z+ m
! U; _2 I6 A+ d6 B, h9 d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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) @/ l* N! v, r# m. ?6 BA 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.& [' r( c, b2 f3 U5 a; X
, i! r5 m1 l7 h: J5 B6 i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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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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9 p7 A, T, M7 h7 o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." ?6 D# ]! d0 {. y L
1 u' ?4 Y- Q; |& N- U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。/ ? O6 ^) y2 a( M; O- q8 b
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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." ~! _: m. T- o7 X
& ^; r8 T; j6 @# t6 T/ s* T G6 A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。. V8 r5 ~( E3 `5 I# o! r2 I
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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. : X# j1 e/ Y M m% N
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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.! s& A7 L7 x2 b) q5 Q: Q
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。+ N3 L/ l* ^' k6 d4 M
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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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7 z3 c7 l* p& i4 E& L* i4 r9 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。
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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. "/ m2 f8 @. {; C% l. U' e+ Y
& A0 J5 }5 d4 x; X0 z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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1 X' j! c# A' C# k& i) J5 A4 f" s2 XTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.6 V- ^3 v" q' B9 W+ y# d
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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。
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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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# M, ^! x$ [: j' }* ?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”。: v$ ~. H! [. x% G
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