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生命就是小甜饼：
6 G# `/ |# y2 |* m' vOne 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.+ f/ ?2 c& j* P! K0 d; ?) |
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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”。7 W0 f Q6 `; H6 h6 t! w" ^
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. L- f' {6 ]7 K5 k) x0 N
" V$ Q( G+ m$ h/ `9 S2 s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 ~. g* @, q+ n* Y) y8 P9 _
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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.7 U3 Y- y/ e w5 T" ^
$ w. c v: E9 s- @6 }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。, O; k% U8 ]& B
& o' |9 S; e4 N9 n6 X) u1 dA 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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( g. Q7 a5 x) e# D* R6 n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.( j; v' M1 F3 {) O( d+ Z
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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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- t# W6 R0 s7 V8 DBut 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.5 l4 A% F" r6 h8 e
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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。& f" Z# g' @: K
$ f: G$ Q4 {. {( S9 i9 ]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。# j- Q% V/ y2 E3 I
3 r4 W# X, a6 S0 A, e/ f; {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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' z4 ` L) c8 o" ?4 \1 I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。: s3 v) l. q" @; h: F3 G
: q; v+ y9 p* X. u; b5 ^+ [You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. ^ d, m) K. Y$ l4 X
' j$ v5 g" T& t% t M% l; F& _2 n你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。0 p4 h/ c) q+ P6 C8 @4 g: i
& C, q2 c: Z7 OHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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% O$ `- D1 M8 A( X R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。" \& y* l) ]1 T- ^' n5 f
6 ~ K8 F1 r) g: G1 h/ v/ ETwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.9 d, S( x |6 ]" n3 p' U e1 @
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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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) b: k0 s+ K |1 x/ T* E& \( u% t) c( ?9 H+ aLife. 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."0 H8 a! B$ Y$ R4 L! w* `8 G
) ?6 m" u; f( j# ]8 ~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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