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生命就是小甜饼：2 h' ?3 ~9 K' B2 W* S" d
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.8 p) W, V8 B$ {4 y
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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。$ @" w- p% s" _. u* j" F3 s$ y! c: H
7 s8 u% @5 g% \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./ F: l$ H+ ~* K6 {$ ^2 G( z
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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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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.
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% U* M5 Y% c1 W. l: m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。+ l; y Q1 t" c! v
* L7 U1 d7 a9 z$ Y5 a; x0 pWhen 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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! Q" L% q4 F: {3 b) T1 ?3 ^1 y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.
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1 e& w1 P) T* I% ]/ j( P9 O( p6 n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。+ D0 w" s% i$ ]) C/ p$ X! n6 |
- h, D0 _4 e2 ^0 l7 n. {+ ~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.+ M) [0 }: e8 w" A
& ~8 t. s& X0 z r, E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。& ~1 F. m2 [. Z
8 T. i2 q* Z8 [6 R \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. D+ [8 l* \3 ?3 j" f! ?
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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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: g% ]) N4 p( R- e" k5 e. F+ o6 OYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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& I, ~6 i) J' W. a; J% THaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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% N0 e& P* i; q- O, w- k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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4 G' R; F! a" ]) e+ ?* Z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 B# p/ i8 Z: q
- G" ?) P! r4 ^/ m/ b, DTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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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。0 q& ]. B. \) `8 M9 O3 p5 B; X
2 _9 t5 g0 R, d9 ]" h; l+ SLife. 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."
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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”。' V9 t6 K' G$ x
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