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生命就是小甜饼：( L" ~* `7 @6 z) o* V2 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.
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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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, v( N8 V2 W4 L! SIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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% N# D; D: X" {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。% {# D/ K) Y, D8 L9 ^$ [
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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.' E9 p- R) Z E! r( o
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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。
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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.1 `. e4 b) I; U9 D2 p3 N# @+ G
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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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+ S( s. I# o6 d/ k8 V4 t9 iWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.7 _+ @7 R$ c( {+ h/ [5 e
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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。
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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.
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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。/ g# E1 ~- o8 p. T
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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.% d" J- m4 d0 z3 o. S1 B# X" ]
5 K8 D6 ^0 B* { }6 c# G6 Y7 [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。- ^0 ?6 b3 L2 S+ Q- {6 |8 G Q
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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. 2 r4 Q) |8 P# ~. F$ F1 A) X
/ l, D1 h' J O6 {5 }3 _4 J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。& j- D" y. V4 M6 t% i: x" v0 |- D
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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.6 O9 W; a1 Z3 h
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。5 u! N/ `. [: n+ V
) T$ V) g+ R3 H( R& F( HHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.- m1 I( y0 E9 g# r1 U
1 i+ e4 L. m! N5 }" 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。
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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。
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.4 D/ F5 `5 G, n6 X. ~; q" D' @
: n# D/ j7 z2 ^“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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% e6 S; L- k# g& DLife. 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."" d: T* R8 ~8 O+ ?4 b" ?- Y
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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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