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生命就是小甜饼：
7 s8 p1 S$ j" M2 s" P* POne 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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5 R+ n* Q" l1 R( Q) h; p$ m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”。* u8 J; m+ _7 {5 R9 X1 k
1 N- \+ H- P* F; uIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.8 F1 a4 O; E: U; m. ]5 m
|+ H8 l1 K; D4 e6 v6 S0 g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。2 O @' J, e3 K) Z/ p' T; B6 m3 }2 k
5 q' j5 _! m3 j$ _: B/ ySome 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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5 z" @! l5 ^6 o- m% y3 F# m0 ]3 W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.. {: A y- q) p" S, p, m
2 r+ g8 b6 f$ J9 u% B& Z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。# H _/ ?$ D* K/ F( X" T, _
4 e# J* k# l$ @8 v. S' A/ I% fWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.# {- h+ J' W+ n7 U/ j
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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。: h& x( m; Y0 E6 Z m
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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. ?9 o+ g# H: f D1 T& a0 a
$ F7 E5 L& Q& p1 x$ R* |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。* M& n o U5 c2 T! v
9 L) t. D) u( k4 M6 ]- l3 d; gYou 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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1 K, h, n* l: S- W U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。2 B: {, f @. n0 p8 _
* Q* h& Q; t2 B \' |" a6 f0 KYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.; M& A* `4 N, h O3 v' S) h4 [* M4 k
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。! d3 j3 z5 J/ S. i7 |
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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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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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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。, Q3 f0 [9 [2 c: D7 L% I5 m* j8 E
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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+ X; A* p8 W! _8 I0 j“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。. X# Y. {, Z# ]" g7 K
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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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0 F% L2 G3 l8 Q& N% Y2 b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”。* m+ G2 v* w) N, B$ E" i+ `, C$ H
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