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生命就是小甜饼：# Y" K7 M* @! f5 S) O
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”。: x2 ?9 u/ T3 ~7 v! a8 j- g
9 }, O6 Z6 q( `If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.1 m7 n- ]0 n( i3 ?0 [0 o$ c
: f) k' H( h6 b3 G6 B( O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。
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# E m8 Z( H! D mSome 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.1 J3 \8 M# Y) p% T9 J
' i8 n9 K: h( U5 x$ y3 [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。& X, J% g8 n7 m* p, z, b
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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.* B; T( w# m0 h0 U3 @& U
! i9 h- W" t5 s K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。 s: ?% C. A' Y8 T
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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.
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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。$ P2 h, F6 t! L! \" k
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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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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。& H( ?9 j; l7 X5 r. B+ X
2 e2 N! g: B4 cThe 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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2 K- i# X$ [' z2 ZYou 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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You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.8 ^- u/ [# R L
7 B0 r: {/ E9 i; H5 Z你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。0 W. D" u8 e& l1 x0 E* W5 t& n
% \! y9 ~- @0 `! \+ A/ a4 bHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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! l# U. S) i( R2 }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. "% z# [: S# t+ J
8 s$ W! e0 r% D" i- U- v/ Y- u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。+ V9 r8 p: ?0 P9 M! o: v3 ^6 G
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.& ]' ~ A/ |* a8 x
* j h; p) u0 {" D y“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。( a" L3 I+ n" X& ?0 b
# x& H1 S9 Y) s$ q" f3 n3 G. eLife. 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."' R: M/ ?# t+ s+ G4 S
! l) @( p, n0 x0 Y3 `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”。# r, q8 O# v# e7 l7 }& \
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