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生命就是小甜饼：
: S9 K, G. U+ D9 vOne 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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/ U, A2 L& P, P' H1 `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”。$ }/ V R1 R- {9 @, N* P
) N& O+ C t+ Q* ~9 {If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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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。 O4 D! g( _2 z5 a
" Q* t% I, }1 R3 O( pSome 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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- B! ~2 _9 |- U- TA 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.! s. P( y% s9 |+ u
/ N7 `! K) e/ t3 N8 c% j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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L3 F: |; C( N( A; ~When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.& Y6 \7 O- D7 P [9 s% h8 o) Y
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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。% t, D6 ?, F8 w; e) b; |+ U
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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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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。1 o9 c- I. }4 o' m* S" T" {
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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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: E/ f' i( ~! n9 A; X1 q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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: I1 @* v) D& m3 U: m+ i2 C" B/ j5 hYou 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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4 X X; Z% [: {" f4 z: ~ K2 @* C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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7 R ?& e' u L n0 XYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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, H5 g" y( j3 p6 a' c你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。& I$ l! Z9 \+ Q
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.% X9 j$ Q3 E1 J. C& Q A" Q
0 f2 c5 i& C& \* y A8 t( O9 C- W5 E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。& ?- z) Q' k/ O4 u1 @
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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. "2 |) ?/ `. O7 T/ v W% d3 v5 E
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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。- o2 k: L+ e( Q1 ?. m
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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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8 G; ^; U9 {/ c- B4 L8 Z6 F“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。% N3 X# }8 K- q
8 o( P7 l+ k w2 t# l1 u) TLife. 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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; s$ E- u! ?: ]6 w4 u, ^* u! V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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