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生命就是小甜饼：' q5 k( B# C4 c4 @( n% D3 Q* e1 v/ |
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.; n! x8 g) E1 S9 r
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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”。2 c' X5 B! e! D- g) h$ L
; }! F. ]/ [, y1 NIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.. d) o! G8 b3 e* B; [# T
6 b C& H$ v5 Y* Q/ Q! m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。/ n j: x1 S8 @4 w
- o/ H) T7 i$ ~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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' |" v+ ^; W+ S+ [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.: ?; g g2 C9 _ u, i1 g3 s, n
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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.! ?( E2 p. W6 [* 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。
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* x) v* v4 }0 L0 I7 K w! CBut 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。
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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。5 L# `7 ?7 k- N
1 N+ J: p* }+ f1 x4 y; Q0 s4 uYou 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. f/ h6 `7 d: a; `! D
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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。4 c' C" F2 e7 ~* o/ v. _. W; c0 U
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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.. [9 x& z z6 e2 [' S1 ~
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。3 _; I4 F q) b% @) o( O; n, Z# ^
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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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+ e- {0 T5 p' m H. _7 f' 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。" n% o" T4 P8 ]# K4 d7 j0 L+ N
+ V& W+ M& q/ K3 j0 P& Q) \: QFor 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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, c! d3 M; R! C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。, _, c( J- e& Y1 y6 ?
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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。
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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."+ u7 d( y+ q; D9 o" [; P
- ]# C, a0 s; E% b6 p, g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”。2 u* k$ ]6 M" a) p+ _& H
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