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生命就是小甜饼：
' a. } G! Y* B9 F4 ]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.8 q, V' @$ ]9 T& q% J' f/ |
9 d* ~- ~: E% a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”。" A$ X7 ? O+ l9 G! a3 z) d
- Q5 L3 l/ [, }; W6 d t1 l( \8 BIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.0 t9 W3 i. n, l' G
5 r1 \6 z2 Z8 Y7 ^7 P8 f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。 l8 K- w; Y4 @5 V
& {7 J5 ~( ~5 jSome 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 ~; U( x. c) G$ T" i$ _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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c7 E7 h' X: x' n- r# W3 {, }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.- S5 i0 n. ]% D2 m; ]
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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。8 r: f7 ?5 y% b7 X5 N8 q" B. |
5 c+ a4 }1 T0 U1 {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。" v- B* n" R) F( f( E
/ J4 ]* {" b% N+ k* R; L1 lBut 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., q2 w) W5 C. w( p8 C0 W
, [6 T3 u( H/ ~- B+ P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。# r4 g3 T, Y* I. v8 ]
, ?. F: _. w' u$ B& h @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.1 |1 _" }( X* d( c2 j X' w9 o
G# G6 @6 s4 e8 u- y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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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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* c, L) l: U. }! mYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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6 |6 `1 M8 E) a# ]5 ]) m- x/ F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.1 Q& F l3 h- }# ~; t8 V
- s6 f! N$ ^' }: t7 q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。/ j$ z# Q6 m5 C
0 h- q1 x z- N5 l/ ?0 kFor 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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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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/ b1 t4 S% D8 q5 U" j3 mTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.% n- W9 ~; `, _! l2 m
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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.") z0 G6 S: o. J/ P: n% q
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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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