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1 G% p' g& a4 M# ?7 ]生命就是小甜饼：/ \% O1 W: D. v2 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.- |1 O3 k8 T% z* {- E6 |$ V6 C+ ?& R
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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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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。
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- z# [- S9 |; y( h6 V7 ]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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) O) A) a, S r) 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。
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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.
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. n2 s$ K$ X8 H) I) i6 ^: `9 {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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$ o; ~: o, k/ ~$ z$ p1 ?) iWhen 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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1 ?0 t$ U1 J+ D; Y2 _( f# 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。; Z" @8 e) r5 I
2 m3 z( p, l9 z: P) ?6 X. LBut 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.3 B* V3 l6 r- u. }
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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 N4 Z& X7 O5 b
$ Z- A! |6 Z% f% ]0 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.6 Q2 O0 Q$ z; S# Q& X
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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 E1 {: _$ y' f) ?6 B0 }
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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. ) z7 K3 f& ?' z3 P* [
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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。" L! X" {- D! x6 c M
! a( f$ D3 m" \- p% a/ v6 l; R6 kYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. {7 I3 w* F6 H" Q9 l) Y
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。4 M6 `+ d' n2 @% B# n- s
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.# a3 @3 R( P" c! q% B
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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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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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' W. c7 S k7 C2 x, c- e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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7 E) H0 k9 p' L/ v4 ~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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b) v; {+ F& [: C- `- ~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”。+ h9 H7 A4 m0 e0 J, B" ]0 k
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