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生命就是小甜饼：! h8 n, l. y# [7 i( ~
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.2 t7 c$ V9 {! t3 j7 \
$ @: Y: o$ [1 w8 O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.0 d# u Q+ R+ |5 V
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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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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.$ g9 K3 S& o9 i- \, K
/ m: S) w, K- @7 P- c$ R S7 P$ B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。5 w2 @* d/ F' |; P6 F
! W, h i7 t' N# y/ lA 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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v6 a, m" n( ?8 E9 }* ]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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6 g9 I3 X$ a0 T* uWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.! d5 G8 I. x2 S5 B& D4 m# O- r S& h
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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。; o) a3 m# H* H+ T# ~6 y9 H
7 W1 j! q: y& y! J7 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.
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9 r$ f& P. v3 q$ U; t2 r- v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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; ]+ M- i& S5 r% u+ Q( |* eThe 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.' g/ a. z& L# ~/ R. T& d a
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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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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。3 }0 n0 D3 G' ]; D4 p
" n6 N8 X+ s M! F8 rYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.% |7 k4 O P, {
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 j5 ]6 A. L: F: g# C6 p
1 o, m( Y c# ZHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.- [3 M$ F& R2 u" f* U
$ X6 n' D9 F4 D7 R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。' b/ u' ?" g+ R1 [+ A [+ ^
}3 J( y6 A( s) k- \. MFor 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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# Z5 K' {- n2 \+ Q9 {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。4 R" F2 p5 ]2 u2 M" F M
4 b4 g, @$ V4 K) ~Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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& ]1 k& J1 u; 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。1 T' `3 T; V) R% k
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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."4 f# o$ G) x; z( U. a
" x" j i7 q/ t/ z8 M" \- I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”。3 b; g" O4 H: M9 a) k2 n: D# @. t. L
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