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6 Z- p% a) M' }2 E5 u3 y# ]生命就是小甜饼：
5 E0 P% x4 M1 W) _: s, _" W WOne 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”。: s B3 z5 c/ A/ p% r
* l7 q) S" |: N( j9 G0 C. gIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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M0 k# \, ~$ h, z* m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.
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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。4 F3 Q4 O# w4 @( ]0 U3 a" f& P; h
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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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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。: i. d$ r& \1 ^# |+ P
' r6 m+ x a% v3 bWhen 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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2 D% g$ W6 r! Q( I7 s( n7 s3 Y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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/ ]% {9 S5 m1 U. T- G' CBut 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.- m8 ^3 K! |6 k& v& V
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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。
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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.
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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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9 `* F0 [% o- D- PYou 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 `: l' s B* Q' B# |
$ i" A7 x3 R+ n1 p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。5 J; j; \% E* B6 ~1 q
@. e: q9 W! [( O- w* yYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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4 X% K7 c! j3 ?& f6 O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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% F7 ^# Z8 U: K3 a/ ?. V& }$ s+ W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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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。6 r; n' D) W% d
8 e6 ^/ _5 n$ b. O+ [& ~ |% VTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important., w" T1 ~. W- s c! l1 G0 Y
+ G d( c$ W, \ q“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。9 [0 `# P1 M; P0 L8 Y
, ^3 p7 k8 V1 |* V+ h" Y8 y$ GLife. 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."1 D8 x$ ]" j1 T/ \4 {/ x1 s
" A1 z; T! i( H% k1 N/ h5 f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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