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生命就是小甜饼：* @4 O x2 Z- f8 v( J1 T+ }5 l ]
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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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”。% E" |: i: v: ?. C1 r7 `
( I# J8 _ N: W$ ]. F" i9 aIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.- I% z) t7 E3 j9 G, W
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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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3 \* t( j; A& m7 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.
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* o( d5 @- |% @/ M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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6 h8 w+ s6 s& C6 Z4 i. wA 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.; F9 l1 ~% H" W I
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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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' e& D/ p( m. g& {4 J! NWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.; `7 q4 Y) T/ x; H! I
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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。4 d* g3 w9 ~2 f' S. ]3 _
! q( R, ?5 K N0 q& d7 N: k1 lBut 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.) U5 d5 q" k- B$ |. \+ x$ V
a- {8 y5 C$ F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。. b, `0 `3 L0 @8 s$ m6 a
; ? e5 V/ e ? N; YYou 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. . _* I9 w6 Y0 Y
' X3 u1 T V) [: W5 W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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+ g9 u3 c/ B: sYou 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。- V8 l" c* H0 I6 g) f4 l1 C
$ h; s; t7 x9 V D) FHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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/ e9 d2 s }0 z- m. L) X+ n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. "2 |2 c+ c& a+ F' C4 \: O a$ p
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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。
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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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" x' [0 n7 v8 b# r n/ M“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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4 s! d& x! o0 C% x$ pLife. 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."9 S8 f- \6 z) I$ T f' ?' O
" r b8 A) V" u4 r% U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”。+ R7 L9 N0 t% s6 d' b4 q! A
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