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生命就是小甜饼：
, D0 X' l& z7 j6 }# d9 @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”。# E, R% [3 P# i. D& \
( d6 \0 X3 f/ F \# E W+ R9 xIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.. W7 R" ?* e( X+ \2 h9 r
5 H1 x$ E. w( Q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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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.
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, G' U- i; r* h4 a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。5 s2 r, g, Q/ A
- |) y6 @3 z5 _. [) a) ?' YA 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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+ E4 Y: q% [. v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。, W- T, g6 a8 f( L, Q+ y' C
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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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( d' n- @- K2 N. ?7 p4 P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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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.; V) j- @) C- G, r, t* i: p/ {
$ m, B$ K- D- R. { F* c% C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。) l: x6 x6 K) C# [6 w
+ j: M5 g% ^7 OThe 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.$ a: i, {1 v8 }4 `% J
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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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: @6 o9 ~+ j% v% LYou 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. + t3 D9 V( @6 [; ~$ B
* Z* @: a c, O3 ~( P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。5 F6 Q2 |0 O) ~8 z' {1 {- S' F: M8 S
3 `8 Q5 i5 X4 D+ @4 l4 jYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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+ W p) x+ R9 V. B) @6 D你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。; i P3 V$ f* M% \0 _( t9 z) |6 {
) p0 M( T9 L& o2 o0 `Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.7 @ K6 d3 A! r$ r d% l4 e5 }( g
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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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( U: L+ u0 B" }! L$ i' ?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. "9 }) |# I3 ]& g3 e
/ {- X5 S2 \1 s; l" o% n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。# A, K v' c. o
5 C4 A" K7 }" ]7 s5 a# hTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.) ]2 a- w6 O/ `* p
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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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) I2 S7 h/ a) B+ L0 lLife. 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."( Z4 [+ B$ y& I7 l& h
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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”。/ q$ s5 e! L% B. b, t: L ?
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