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) n3 P2 a# ?5 ?! a生命就是小甜饼： N; Z) T0 X, h+ y |, O
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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( \' h; P& f7 s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”。, I5 @5 ^' M" y2 O, b
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.! a2 [1 l+ ^( L& ?1 b2 {- _/ ]: v
8 Y, G/ \! N( ]! G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。2 D- s0 g5 l* {1 t6 `0 V( b. @) ~
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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.' Z/ {! x* m9 b8 f0 Q
' W3 u' ~: a8 `/ k/ ]- ?! m% z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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& Z- i( {- b6 W4 A2 YA 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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' V( b# G: d- M) {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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! e3 j% J2 M& L& n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。
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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.6 t0 d- k$ ~! P6 ^" ?
/ r# Y$ ~- n5 `7 ^* g2 p: @4 c- X r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。4 L; y0 I {8 P! w
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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. ' y9 s1 L7 d% A! @7 `
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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。, P7 w5 ~: m8 h# a C+ }
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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.8 \/ `% @, i8 r# I
, V/ G; i q% ~" K7 p [& a% ]你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。6 [! f- u0 e* f* R6 ~- ~9 ~7 v
3 P0 o$ {1 c+ \- s: b6 yHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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/ g$ k& a0 I, u1 b f2 v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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" k+ k/ s6 [% y2 ]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。) j9 ?9 z- H9 p% g% z# i
2 A0 {" _8 j: Q: x$ E' s6 ]( kTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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* @' o- P7 K8 p# `“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。: A2 @) S$ m% m D a* p- v
# R$ e) r% P9 P' l- C$ tLife. 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."- q7 d2 r4 C" M3 L2 B. `
! ^ z' S2 T' Z( S* F6 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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