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P3 @0 I$ Q2 @& a- L生命就是小甜饼：3 c$ y2 K6 l* _( 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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G- z u" N( m5 Q5 J! z$ U$ q1 Y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.5 I/ _6 A, w2 O) y( { m9 b8 v
; C! K' B+ x! m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。3 X1 e! }9 c* S# J9 A- Y" H
$ f' r! f, P* K- d7 JSome 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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2 t2 V8 y. P2 d8 A" g, {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。: _) [8 S+ j+ Z K6 H
1 q7 B f# H& [5 G/ n! ~. PA 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.7 D5 r$ s# B2 L. b t
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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。3 Q5 z2 Q; W; Y# Z" m
" d0 o! @. L1 c. |When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.' W+ N t0 c# O5 ]
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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。
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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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! I: p3 K# [: Z4 {$ i& ~: ?+ k% u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。# N; N/ C; E6 i |! @/ A
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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。2 [+ t% [$ i8 O6 R
; F* y4 a, u3 V5 G$ yYou 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. ! l( x9 _/ l% z0 D$ `
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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。 Z I. I/ ~" |! j( d$ J- [9 O/ p
+ h7 l' ^9 s' {9 C6 W5 u, u, GYou 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。3 U7 P; ^' }* ^7 w0 d
8 g4 f" `5 |. L2 qHaving 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。6 s/ C/ X. ] \/ A6 R: {# x
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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. ". {9 \, a0 I) t! C
1 c, }1 z6 |$ f' b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。( K9 n2 y1 H' ]5 D+ I/ c u, F
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.1 p3 H% e! h* t' l
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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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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."' e. b- d( @3 f4 v$ y
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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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