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生命就是小甜饼：3 N7 F/ n6 n; P1 y5 S; a
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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0 v! F- ^& S# P2 g7 C2 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”。4 d3 [$ ^) D; C1 X/ ^" L, q* ^/ x
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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。
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8 @; {' N9 \& l1 `' uSome 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./ B \8 o5 h6 m; J) [
; w* G1 m6 H: h3 N+ }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。( p. z8 V3 ?' ~" Z1 H
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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.+ y0 b, T; p' x' r# N5 L
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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。 e& z' R- j6 f& T
1 B" H. W* e; u% EWhen 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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9 H3 l% y' |1 j* F g, YBut 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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: ^4 n4 o. c7 S) N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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& T) S& U2 w; T5 dThe 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.2 S N& u- u* t# \% P
) n' j% F( N y5 b1 k p5 J d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。- S1 G4 ]& i( S& |8 ^
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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.
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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。
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1 F$ i* `7 O, W& V8 p6 gYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.) `8 l# k5 S0 E' k0 t0 a
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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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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.$ k/ w8 c+ g0 e5 ^
1 `5 M/ p# S: a& ^3 z+ v9 w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。' x( I3 Y4 h- k8 J% A
! K+ c; r/ l( y+ L: H1 B* WFor 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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3 r: A9 \# k* p. s) q4 ^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。6 D; _/ w m, F% I: P5 X; ~
; ~. K* L( z2 w/ l6 z s% yTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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4 A2 u9 J8 |! c- O“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。4 d! |* k" o% k/ g) L4 l% k
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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."6 S5 y$ A- W5 e
4 {! i9 g9 I1 i& d% X1 ^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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