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生命就是小甜饼：8 | i1 ]* b9 x8 l) a
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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$ b# c/ M C7 }8 Q) B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.7 f% E9 p7 m+ o7 x$ s/ ~
@* D3 O: z, z/ _- B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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+ M3 K1 h7 E4 O# V6 k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。- I" X$ p2 u7 V
- ~" J+ x! D9 s. I* JA 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.! X9 p7 P. W0 [. |5 F3 c' v! ~
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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。
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# v; j5 ^9 L" X, n0 h1 {# w- aWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. @4 `* D* u- Q5 s2 ]! b$ _% W
0 u- T& Y3 i: m6 R+ l- c1 @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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1 ` a; ~/ e. h( VBut 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 @9 D2 P1 }* |1 f7 y9 h2 n
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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。. [0 _5 N5 t7 g7 a; D" u+ Y) U
* h3 P( m! D; i2 jThe 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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4 m& m& u# G# }. HYou 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. ; S/ L% ^2 k8 @( H5 ~2 X9 _
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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.
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# L5 u& p7 \+ p* R* i, _你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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- h ]! e6 v7 \9 o; n1 cHaving 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. "3 [0 c5 R5 ^- u6 J
: j* u2 h Y1 E2 A" j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。
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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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7 M* U7 U6 @/ ?: }0 ~“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。- {8 U$ ~( E) C. \- y. ~, M
- L1 }, c, m- ?" B8 Q" ~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."' ?: K" Z. N( `/ `9 e
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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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