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生命就是小甜饼：9 U8 d6 Z3 j$ J; y
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”。
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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3 M( [( E C2 a, T, 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。
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/ x. g- A$ E' ]% Q7 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.# l* a6 j- H0 e- r
( J, U% {. l0 W- }9 ^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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/ r3 b4 K+ |/ n9 q9 v, X) kA 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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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。+ V- e% i0 A+ | K) m: I G
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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.6 t1 z& `' ~* |" K. A
6 `8 ?3 y8 {8 z" O% S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。3 ~% y5 P4 r( y7 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 e7 Y* B) \% k- p
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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。
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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。" D0 G1 D$ }7 k
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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. : i5 R; p: L/ k3 \7 B6 U$ H4 |9 w
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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。 ?( Y7 h4 B# a( E
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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." h3 K0 @* u! Z+ c) ]3 ]( ?3 @/ b
2 }4 I' {6 B3 [; }, I3 E; [6 I你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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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。) k" ~; L+ `1 p
- d: c0 ~$ Z3 r6 d; 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. "* R+ Z. N; r B5 W% p
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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。5 }0 E0 m6 N, @! y8 m
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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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$ J) H& J" Z6 c8 y, j# R“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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8 G& E7 T+ E4 m$ I1 v/ uLife. 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.". k9 @+ l, f& x: l; I( K
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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”。
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