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生命就是小甜饼：* h$ p" b$ D# I) {9 H2 w8 O7 w
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.5 A, C' A6 \9 s9 l
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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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$ y6 D- Y. d- n" h4 i$ lIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. G; O/ t+ h' s+ w' N
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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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- ]* Q) v; a3 B( \: D5 Y: |. y1 k' G. `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.' t W& n5 v; Z0 m* x
3 ~+ Y3 X1 f/ s2 B2 Q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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* V9 c4 g4 c7 o. d' {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。5 ~, [- w" y$ \7 K, f6 I5 q
3 x4 w3 l% N) w& Y/ i8 ]0 ~When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.3 t0 {% G2 b6 t; F
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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/ J- A$ f E# V) Z6 D
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But 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.2 D1 O9 P. B$ y" d- s% C' ~ q0 m
% P. I$ O5 K: B( H$ ]9 [3 o7 n2 U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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' T) A3 G ]# H1 JThe 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.) c" Q3 Q* ]) t$ w+ I; ^
6 c& w; ~% `* @" U; Z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。$ Q; c/ k0 H l2 ]' p4 P4 W6 m2 P
}- t+ s6 o8 ~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. * u4 r. ^ m2 H- P l: }4 n
, X4 L# A6 T q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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You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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) \, T9 u6 p) h; d+ E4 A, n- B1 F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.& r% b( l1 H4 M4 c& A6 t" m, ^
. W1 _0 X/ I# m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。 ^! o" P- }0 Y I+ f* x2 k, q+ ]
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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. "* H8 V( ?8 w2 C' s! `
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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。
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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."" u" b2 S" n" I) m% E5 r& \; [
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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”。
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