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生命就是小甜饼：% r) X. b1 m/ E& Q/ [- x) m
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.7 G) F* b* t) B7 E' I. }0 I
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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”。# x# Y0 K5 ~1 M* s
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.# J4 m, E1 K! y$ X
" x. l, }& ]* N- x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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- w. D, s+ @! K5 O* R4 G0 ?( E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 ?7 ?: j( c/ v# R1 s
' B' d6 E1 _# `& r+ X) WA 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.( v. r2 ?. L1 ?5 t; O0 b
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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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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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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。% Z2 t1 T# ^2 T* I* v
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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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5 l9 ?. k) J, `* [ I- 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。
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) M! `! Y/ e3 nThe 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.: k/ n, ]. T9 ? Y( V+ E
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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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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.
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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.( @: i i2 R. e1 e
( e! \# {/ L, M* h0 @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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5 H! Q7 S; |6 m8 @! t2 M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。0 j1 Q. V+ S0 j
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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. ") C8 Q5 |, ~9 P+ `" F
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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。- I' h: ?" d1 Z9 s! }
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.7 u; f1 j, O6 f
1 w, w/ P+ M4 \6 F& \, E“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."
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' n# v5 o% a/ z) G: @+ Z0 a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”。9 t' V+ A$ \! s1 W' S5 I
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