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生命就是小甜饼：
$ `+ j. A/ b9 Q! E% Q: ?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., W K6 y/ u3 f
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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”。
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/ }% c0 v7 q! ^. B# a* `If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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) u0 ~% @) j e! X9 [( [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 F" Z/ B& _5 n: ]6 q) a# O8 ~8 kSome 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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7 L" a6 |# \! {2 I9 x- p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。% C% f( X+ n7 |% } q7 R/ v) |& z
3 s9 c! _ @( V1 R7 }" k* x. Z- Y! }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.7 p- N) T/ Y, x2 q' V
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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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) P9 P( w$ v9 [7 p; t1 JWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.2 q+ V% Y. A4 y" Y+ w5 `4 u8 i
. l1 v1 h: V8 P t" c- b% u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。' S6 k" e% x# k: o! ^7 d, [1 D
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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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2 g9 Q8 N1 E4 Y9 @/ } y8 d E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。0 N g' H0 m8 @1 g R' y& y9 `
# K7 `, W: w2 K, v# X4 kThe 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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% B# f$ W" J! l4 {6 K5 ]- |( o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。$ K7 Q( _9 |; G) P O
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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。2 r. p2 _; w, x- X9 ]% Z
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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.# A/ c7 T3 d* u6 m$ o; m, n( a
0 x6 \: `3 T& E- V7 f! A你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。; `$ h, @8 w8 [; H0 ?: m& W2 w
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.* J4 J8 C' Y5 |! q& e7 a) C
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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。) Y) M( ?/ x1 n
' {# o" q3 l( I, p" B3 y. }. }+ PFor 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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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。1 M" r _: T& x, T( w- E2 F+ j
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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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4 [5 \3 ?0 K" Z( b$ i* G“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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, f: N) R% } t4 b+ I6 |4 sLife. 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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5 R1 \3 y* s5 |& I* @+ i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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