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+ g: B! K) b. l- z( Q* u/ W生命就是小甜饼：4 H# X. _, P0 R2 |" t, ]; z
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.( \! E8 e# R" f! c) a Y
) W: {* S w5 w0 j( c! t- v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”。% T+ J8 |9 b9 P0 l2 s
2 L. H: p2 O+ M3 x6 W7 fIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.7 R0 F) X- o+ T3 n7 u
2 ]( e8 T1 {! |3 h) Z! b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。9 i t1 H3 K% I6 K
7 F5 |& i7 D0 l% S" l t: o& 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.* X& L p" I' q7 {
. g' W. O0 n- S! U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.0 F0 S( F% P9 e; Q5 p' g
O2 n" e q3 E$ H( P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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/ d7 k) I6 z2 I; W4 L' yWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.( s+ r$ I8 K9 G+ T
3 P1 Y) J0 C* `" s' A! G) P) C+ d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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# l* w( p5 S9 e iBut 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。7 m# q) {! q" n
/ [# p$ x( v1 wThe 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., a* f" U9 F- z
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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。8 l E( d) ]7 `; K0 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.
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( j, K, |0 x, S* Q; R( i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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$ G8 P, q+ I2 t: e; c! K# MYou 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。+ G, }9 r( M4 z8 C# ?, i" h. C
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.9 Z4 T2 H) l5 w
6 Q0 `# D6 F4 [0 k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。% U9 u4 d y' M' h4 K4 C5 K5 P
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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. "
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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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! a+ w8 V1 P2 Y E# b“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。$ N5 [: d, G; }+ K. L- x' n
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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.") \- w( ^5 H' A6 M, k. N B
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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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