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生命就是小甜饼：/ A S1 C" L1 L, ~6 ?
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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/ [- @4 b+ n- O8 i1 M IIf 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。
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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." }& O" A5 O* S- t2 F- q
% R2 P" c$ X8 ~; U; Y% k5 H& O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。* Z. d3 e4 s+ y/ o5 Q$ m+ [8 h( t
6 Z3 n- O: y, s& A+ ?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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% \. |' w! u' P$ l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 y h+ b7 X- [* x/ K+ C N
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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.' V" v! a; w. A8 L$ _2 n4 H( ?
x% Q% Q9 B, @1 T9 L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.5 x1 w4 E% P$ S+ C0 _1 f* d
- u! T& j' H" J0 ?! Q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。/ u3 d, S" a7 g6 h3 i0 X1 G
2 D* q$ i' b! m) u& K# p9 P6 CThe 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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6 T- B1 s9 [; E; F" E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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6 m; w) d+ L0 N; n7 l. b9 W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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3 M4 s# G5 O: ^0 I" u, {- \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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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。& R# h5 [% d. p# Z% M' ~
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.$ {) z8 d; O2 w# S5 @
( `. T0 j( P( 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。) [' d9 Z9 z" j
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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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8 {' |$ n* ]$ }4 `9 L" Y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 C; Z+ t4 x' B7 G, i
. @* e4 [7 Z& \- T% aTwo 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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% z0 }# b9 i4 u, 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.". @3 J: S% j; u1 E# `
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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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