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; C$ l, n! S9 g. {5 N生命就是小甜饼：( g3 y% B3 J6 ~% X1 u
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.) L+ Z9 J7 \2 g% v
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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”。1 U' d* S' z2 A; w+ r2 ^" ?
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.! r& E3 i6 b5 N7 e* t
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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。
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5 ]( o6 y9 x, c7 ?2 }; x& \. oSome 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.& O+ M |; Z9 k j$ T; I* X
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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。1 e: v8 ^- [- D4 d6 M
# Z) L$ E9 r2 n3 _( s( ^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。
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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。
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% N7 C/ @2 }7 d9 k% |/ }: KBut 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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% r% Q+ p; L1 y# e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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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.0 o' ~& H- ~3 _: O. x: G8 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。* R* ?; l' P7 f) n9 X& P
' g% _8 O7 B- _- c" V) H1 m1 OYou 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. 7 C9 c/ V' [) O H
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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。8 _( V- M, I2 c* P! |
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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.6 x% j/ Y$ Z. g b2 }
+ e" X3 S& x$ J% A2 H9 u你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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' R# T- U6 S, b9 h- f9 EHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.; f1 s# p4 a ]5 a
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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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5 s* a W+ T# pFor 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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: r) x; v g# M* M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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“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 o# Q) l# E5 Q1 m, R, v
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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."7 v9 d0 J" ?% C6 S$ X) p/ x
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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”。% N! R$ J7 c5 W
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