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生命就是小甜饼： H& q$ t u% \* f$ r5 t
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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8 I. c$ j* C- a( ~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”。1 \! S3 L3 J2 V
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.1 f& I/ {: j" A1 S" b# u
; I' [ n+ a4 U8 ~1 n; z d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。5 L. J4 }) L- j
* A# o' \7 C. |$ x( e4 ~2 }2 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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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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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。 X' y. g* I$ f1 K0 b1 v/ S
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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.& t+ {3 I9 L$ y1 @$ _) @ s* L
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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。+ e; F- R4 p3 [( u1 N2 K7 g
6 }& l7 V& U& EBut 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.$ O3 g8 p. q. d. s) s8 ~4 a& s
8 B o8 p2 x8 `% i6 J9 H7 ?/ M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。 R6 H0 M0 g! M P1 C3 B( W9 M, [8 ~
) b. V k! K5 H4 D5 a+ ^, 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.
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- {# r" S( t, A6 h' V: I( n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. % f9 j+ x$ F0 K) v
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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。" s1 R1 [0 N/ G
w! R7 v. C$ 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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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。; D+ r6 P4 q2 T. e: p6 W
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.0 x8 ?0 u5 q! ^
4 a; @: c) [8 z; n/ c9 [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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$ o2 v# ^) P) ~9 H) ]5 gFor 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. "! A& M' r i. t$ e: \" Z
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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。. \% T6 a4 }# e! ?+ ~2 J0 W% W! |
5 f2 ]" @ f5 \# s; ^6 jTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.8 z9 p+ h% E9 z) y" \1 l4 @
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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。% f7 H0 i9 ~- {0 `# C
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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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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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