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' T1 |) b' ?, G; I- f* N生命就是小甜饼：$ d! V8 E$ q/ a6 Y- ^) ?
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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" A( Z8 C5 ?5 C6 W7 t" N5 y9 m, w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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+ T3 E& m+ t# _4 c% ]' b. bIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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3 ~ U* s9 j* ?1 s( J0 ` a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。6 Z5 r. a. @; V$ Q! i
2 _ w M9 E* }4 \7 }. CSome 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./ I0 e5 |' m( M7 u
' T+ ^! v6 z. g8 z. M8 S3 e- D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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; |8 ]* [% |! Y1 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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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.7 x8 k# B$ U- |! f$ [% a
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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。+ r$ W0 y% s& g( N; b$ u9 H
7 [, n8 E8 k/ OBut 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.* ~3 v1 K# {# c; G3 P5 f+ v( Y* O) ^9 v
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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。. V* K$ O, f1 j Q3 P8 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.9 G. ^! p9 |& U% L
4 I7 Q4 r/ z% U6 h+ M2 r6 k% }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。: D$ l. z3 y( N' }5 s% s
% r7 U; P) r' y- uYou 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。4 Y x) }" g9 }: }: P! \9 _
3 i; Y$ W3 t6 `/ ~& a) i8 k3 R5 vYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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& d' e8 m0 o0 x+ X# x) U: k你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。1 w7 H1 p2 N& e, [2 g
, k/ i( e Z* a, M# u% P- AHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.+ B y' i: A! a( t9 F1 g
$ D( V- W4 b9 F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。1 z+ c% Y) Y6 W1 X* H4 X
8 q4 b* K# g8 n+ nFor 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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; j9 J7 f/ h4 t9 i8 W& c$ h" A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。* r5 _1 `$ Z( ]# |6 _+ P
2 L- R$ a p# _$ m3 g, e2 LTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.; R8 f# R J8 `* u! a; t( P8 A
1 H- X- D( {( ~+ o; A3 ?! j“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."
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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”。/ _7 b9 F0 u" f" T% ^
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