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5 C& P9 [0 T0 t生命就是小甜饼：
/ f! l$ ^" t6 ]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.: q j+ D- R5 c" u0 m- |# ?
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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”。5 K5 l6 e5 T- u9 O% i
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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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。* n0 d4 R" t1 W9 t4 J) s! O
! q( s) v! e: J7 @$ [+ C2 rSome 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.% u- U' M+ q3 N- x4 K+ ?
' ]4 C8 O# W0 |9 P" p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。) D, g& F2 X* O1 k" 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。
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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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: v$ j6 i" W+ Q4 `3 D. o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。. W3 r' q" `% \, V j, E5 z6 a
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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.+ n) E7 ~& K: Z0 L
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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。: Z4 H# r5 j" a- c2 Q4 \3 B
+ O) S; ~6 r& ?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。/ N; {$ Z1 w7 I3 g0 ]: Q
2 A- F. e" \$ {# D4 k0 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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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。% u% S* }$ x0 w: V/ n# I& L0 j: I
3 w: q4 P. `! }1 P# p: m" s0 EYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.0 I5 y0 Y) ]& a S2 R
$ h+ c* Y9 }: r9 P你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。5 F1 {0 _1 u) f
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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。" G( z( [. b6 x& X" @9 p2 [% u) t
6 @- k) H$ T) CFor 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.
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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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4 e, i; E4 ~' ]; X8 B: J# JLife. 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”。- D3 W( [8 _* N0 v
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