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) O4 i$ i# \5 F! ^- f生命就是小甜饼：* g4 \2 U# E6 T, R7 Y t' ~3 s& n
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.3 i: r- M( W) [, |& f. ~
3 r E+ x: M- e3 N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”。' k. x6 f. T8 a& ]/ D$ k2 S3 ^' c
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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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。3 i, v2 c2 i% a! L. f
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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.
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! }3 ?% c2 m% T; A/ @( {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.3 T5 J5 r% D1 y- c6 o
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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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" x0 ]9 q. e4 ^: B- T+ H. ?When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.; q' s* r2 {) Y+ D' H1 A7 ]
; c/ {% ^* ~6 [( y0 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。9 j3 }# u1 _& d/ q$ t
+ y/ a9 Z3 _, I, E$ q2 Z! e& i5 `/ RBut 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.: S( f+ s+ d: T4 k0 }
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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。6 q0 w: c8 m8 A2 H: ^
' W% l8 f: D5 z1 {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.: [; ^# H1 l6 }$ D, C4 S
# m {/ V" W" z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。- w5 Q# |5 G5 B. r' x" i6 x- g
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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. 7 h; N7 X+ R% }
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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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/ ?; P' o6 d* i! r+ O" [ Z! S9 a& GYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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3 l* R; c) [$ L+ I你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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0 u$ J, x) b# l, J" D1 Y5 {Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.1 I! f4 X7 d. g+ l$ X( l& |. 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。
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8 T1 p3 d/ C/ V( J- r1 Q4 ~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. "4 g; v( n" d0 W( b4 P5 R* W
+ q) s8 A2 o- L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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+ J7 M& U) Y Z4 X! aTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.: _6 _, _9 b+ ~; D" K8 R+ N
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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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0 @! S5 X3 G; E% V+ [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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! c4 m7 }+ o3 ]' y3 D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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