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生命就是小甜饼：- L; c- i! m& V" A3 z
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”。- c7 `# E/ S* C J$ A
' @2 s1 p1 L( @6 e) j! s) N+ q, uIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing., v) q ]; f Y1 a
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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。' T" A/ c Z: o& o8 S) E1 ]+ {
; b. o* Z% w, R- B: [( ASome 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/ R# R5 q6 D V9 E; x( z
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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。4 g1 m3 s7 ]- ~+ s2 f
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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.. k# V+ }0 ?3 V
: N( s n4 a G, o1 x3 }7 P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。0 _' X+ o+ l& l! Y) F( N1 {
5 g$ c9 @( \: e- t. yWhen 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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8 }' @1 Q4 v" E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。6 d% O$ J# {' t) r( ~( ]
& N$ \' j* B0 r- s7 vBut 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.1 Z! P& F2 F* t% t+ I5 h! j$ v, w$ j, m$ _
. S( {, G L2 o, p. a# X4 g7 N* T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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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! E& {# X' \8 UYou 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. # M3 ?- G9 F9 i) M" W/ u1 {5 z
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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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9 A% p: I' u* @4 T% sYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。5 q y! y, B, l: K5 \
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.2 v- R+ ]* |. q O3 r# i3 b
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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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; D# E7 _; K8 q- Y+ A6 mFor 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. "2 E3 d j, p2 }$ q6 E3 t
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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。9 L7 a) y+ B! p0 ^9 n
1 R& P) R8 |2 C7 p* {- g+ JTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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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。) c1 Z' b4 `: O5 L4 H2 l
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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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+ B) L7 H" F- `4 ?: Z7 l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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