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生命就是小甜饼：. |) m$ a) C# \/ | |
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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2 v! c( v6 U: f% ]2 V6 L/ ~# X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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* s0 \ L) D& U6 T: X, n# `4 MIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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+ ^8 M3 |( W6 P) q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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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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. ^7 n5 R& ^' `$ i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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; s5 c- x3 v6 Y- G5 @# SWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.! v) f+ B/ v- C
% ?1 X( Z6 s- Z# R. @9 f: n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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/ e+ {8 p% V- X6 ]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.
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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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0 H: `. s( f- e7 mYou 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. 5 R( S6 }. K" ^& B5 Y# R
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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& f' ?* X3 s) l# ]
% p1 G4 k6 q: n7 W# Z& ~# Y: b$ w2 yYou 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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9 \+ q" T3 `5 h! V4 cHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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8 F8 K4 t; V! S- m4 C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. "9 T8 h! Z# }& L1 D; `
' D/ y" W& H# d! U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。& k" k: l+ P& W- T7 l9 A0 Y: A
5 c; M0 E1 A, I J2 ~& rTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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7 u% {0 Q- m5 ]5 ^! h- @“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."- o" Z2 j+ h5 p: w; j1 _
$ C3 l$ E: ?, J# z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”。' b' T9 @5 y, J/ d
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