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/ D5 z+ L5 @/ r3 S! |生命就是小甜饼：$ s/ c% M8 ]6 l, n; d' R- X/ n. |# L
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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9 Y: q" [& ?, G7 W* o6 Q ] kIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.$ r2 l4 ]! ]. }4 D: P
) q5 l2 J' O) Z% u: B: T& e4 v e8 F d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 A) A. W6 c( V! s t& F; ~
i: e' {" F1 a8 C) T9 Q0 X6 YSome 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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! |" z6 p* Y! V* \9 N, e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。3 T3 {, K8 `1 y2 L) O# ~- n; q
* Z4 b8 E; ?" M, T- RA 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.6 m1 D% C# A# m8 k3 M1 S& {. f
* n3 F2 E6 I5 x: ^; M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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p6 a6 R" m- h# b$ s0 L, O; ]! YWhen 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。. V9 H: h" A# q4 k5 ]
& |% L" f( X# s, _+ yBut 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.9 D* P p- \2 ^! U! y- z! I
& z* _0 S1 u* J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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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.# @! l- _9 g2 U
* n* g0 d# b6 V7 _- ?6 a% }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。$ \) W+ y6 r8 n9 T0 s. X# n! r
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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。
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' `, y, b. x/ c5 Z+ o4 `You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.1 x& y, j! k( |! T+ e% I
. _0 N, a `. E; K/ c+ F3 i- C* f! w你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。: Y! M8 @* y$ q% T1 B! H3 B
' b, L& |! c( u% Y( j. eHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.% X/ V0 f6 `/ s& D
3 r& e: x5 A% p0 j# e9 c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。& r% @1 Q; k; w8 ^! M5 k6 `
* Q' s5 |/ q# m4 _6 r6 FFor 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. "0 A* h# ~" z$ E- b0 W
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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。# X: e: {# Y: B% n0 D$ E1 V
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.9 Y( j$ A/ {( A1 W) E
; w, f4 O: r/ O“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。. u9 B) y' }; P2 s$ r' o
# n3 e) e# R0 G4 k4 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."! a, v+ W& N6 O% ]$ y) T. A9 ?4 X2 r
' \1 M! L, J3 B4 O0 @5 k. n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”。: R, G# E) |. ~6 [: H$ E
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