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6 F+ r+ Z8 ?- ?" C) N l生命就是小甜饼：1 d8 a8 [" r# f+ n* V' ~
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 G( ], p5 ^! G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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$ {2 x5 Y$ ^/ r9 N" l3 G! v9 r& f% VIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.8 \* q9 }+ D% U/ k5 d! Z% t
2 O3 }$ M) Q, m: f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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9 h; `# J4 m/ H) FSome 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.9 Y: V! v& U" n# y
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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。0 d9 `, ?# `/ w
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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., B: V' P2 I; r# s: f* w
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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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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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; J; L/ t/ Z9 z4 \8 k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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& m! i4 D( S' U! Z/ H u+ tBut 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 e. R$ A+ V' ?1 ]% M$ b& h
( ~/ `5 j( ]* w3 T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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+ B" D9 y$ a. b8 l) ]8 aThe 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.
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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。
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4 J: I" N. x) P' v4 ~; iYou 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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. ]* x" R8 a6 Y4 a8 e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。. [, D; b# R" Z7 R4 u# P$ }
1 T/ {* G9 Q3 @( t+ GYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.6 }9 Z X+ n: _/ ~
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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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。. I# X b# V% b6 C
) G) ^3 W* a" m' ]+ @2 V7 NFor 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。$ U) z0 l0 U3 @) }4 s- e
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important./ \; J6 D; J& m( c8 Z5 X) W& \
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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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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 ~: H5 w0 ^8 S5 F
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