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生命就是小甜饼：% T- ]! R/ S5 J- u0 b
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”。
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W3 O0 O( ~' K7 r0 p9 nIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.9 W: K3 {# D9 R8 E0 h
/ Q+ L. U8 j8 E/ L* B( ~% z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。# L' h, ^8 @; n' u/ N( j
% x, x3 \7 V1 P/ c4 w, c" |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.& y: g) X: P! Y4 Y- Q0 g/ ~9 i
2 _6 ?6 `6 C4 z d2 K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。; @9 b! i& Y( J6 j
3 T" O, Y& ?2 k, C' pA 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.! d) K* X9 h5 n
& ~* v" s8 U" {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。 @6 n6 j" W. y$ f) X
; V. c1 F/ o% \2 p& Q2 R5 k, {3 y4 ]When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.; d7 I" l# _; U+ s+ a# n7 d- q) x
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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。8 Z. l+ s# j- T) o2 v( ^0 G, l3 [
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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.# j- `% @4 z! @4 r' R
$ t) N8 @8 I& P$ T8 b# _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。' x- M0 C" f; v8 ^
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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.1 o# H$ I' N! J8 X/ s
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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。7 @& x. Z+ M, r' e/ T
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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. ) U# u6 x% r0 c
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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 Q L$ D/ c9 ^: s" P
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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.
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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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6 B8 s. K# @! M8 i/ u+ H( JHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.4 h: s% V4 @1 k
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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。
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: v8 ~0 c( L3 w7 UFor 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. "; g, o" X8 ^3 t$ x2 d0 h
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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。8 A1 ^: a7 e' ?, \& \+ D' A
( \( `% \+ I& i" OTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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; M1 D5 X; n0 r) j( }“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。6 |# A5 y+ z+ G$ q9 D
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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."5 f, B, |* C6 d; T
" v% P- k3 M9 ^" D" t3 F8 W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”。4 c0 ]! f: V; X
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