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6 g4 t) r3 P! C+ `( D' f生命就是小甜饼：$ ^. A& s$ F! F1 E, e
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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3 e) k+ H" ], z- }1 q6 g% U' P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”。" g8 K& S4 v4 d, m5 L1 t, S
1 h) N; m* S. @If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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! B' F' H2 e9 d& Y) A/ 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。
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; Q* e: p) }$ o) 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.! x% u% ^$ \- ?
0 n. Q _1 q# l$ o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。. x3 }) \! k+ u: e) [/ s# K' b
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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.( H0 _9 M! E* f" i- ]. E# L2 C5 g
3 M a% R; c- T3 f6 I X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。$ z$ f" g% T, t# ?3 B1 a
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When 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。+ @. N0 a* s& C4 H2 H" U
7 e$ f, e: |" a' UBut 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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, l6 L5 \4 G) k3 V+ w! [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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4 U. m* R* l% {4 d \* W! {0 \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.2 [1 N! e9 R, \. m1 r9 V5 r
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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. j: ]7 E: z& @
4 ?8 r9 N" e- l3 L! XYou 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. : X* [ R/ M" D6 E1 G2 X4 {: Z5 b
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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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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。, ~+ U2 b! y0 N
: ^2 X- X* W# _ H' d; AHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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k0 P5 E3 a3 b/ T) p X5 }/ u7 Q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。8 h |- v& }, z0 K
3 W2 b X# l9 N" N3 U) P4 zFor 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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0 q( a+ e) O# a$ \" Y1 l' f: z" P# y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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6 c3 U$ ^* F ~Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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“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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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."
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/ R2 p) q0 N2 m4 |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”。1 {& o2 h$ ^5 e8 ~/ I: u V
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