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生命就是小甜饼：
! g. K; x9 `2 \5 O; s3 ]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.3 R5 p$ g- L# p8 I9 W: D7 |
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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”。
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; `: ]) P* G" z( QIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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7 s9 p5 f S/ w8 S* k" N [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。0 n- ?+ f1 v# x2 Y1 R
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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。
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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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* B7 M# r# u1 _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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Y1 z2 \6 g1 T& SWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.9 C, l/ a* m- y& D
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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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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.
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. p; r; f1 Q( q# b4 D1 P( r' @, 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。3 U# N$ q+ U& G. D* X) g3 n% y
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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.) k4 y+ ]% m& W$ m/ R1 y
; Z' B. w3 j$ K- t; t2 z& x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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- A. ^! S* l$ s ]( x3 V- W2 vYou 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. 7 u4 y2 H1 Y. j- [! {6 o& [
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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。& j/ q5 i( T, h! D
+ P h% G% ~- E/ @+ ?- g. HYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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% e/ X, R! G0 K& @. X6 H你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。% S( L: L8 o7 A) O2 i3 |
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.* a1 D+ ~3 Y" }0 y
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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。. q5 n6 X i+ ~; A6 M# b7 H9 c
3 w3 Z/ M" A" B6 s+ @" ]9 ]7 t: VFor 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。0 A/ Q: f( ]9 b9 j( e
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.% C0 v+ u# V, ^" x0 {0 o
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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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" g6 f7 c' d5 z( T# A5 pLife. 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."' }2 e! X& D) Z/ s9 a
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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”。, x, y2 ^8 a$ i. G; l( c: ~
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