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7 ^* ~8 L* ?: h( A: J生命就是小甜饼：, M) y% ?9 v' \) \) x
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.; x6 Y }- M9 H
" f, R' w% V$ y' }6 m7 A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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! R3 r3 g8 I8 ]. ?/ F! UIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.% I/ L3 p- \- P$ l+ w# o* m! o
2 w: V5 ^6 B Z. @. G! e$ `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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- [2 j% E+ n% k' wSome 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.; h* m9 j" _! F7 M9 m3 g0 L
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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.8 Z- L6 v) U+ X9 ~
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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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) p( C5 C0 q- yWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.8 X! c5 e% ^& X
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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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. \0 M6 b6 Q4 y/ c- p1 xBut 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 |7 J2 Y! t$ Z9 w0 z
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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.3 t* C! z% @1 X4 y1 E
5 S8 f0 P! r, H- N5 w4 |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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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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) U7 i% t3 v4 e, A8 \' j) CYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.' n7 y5 ~3 G( c; W. n/ T
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。4 y7 v0 r( g- r
) z& j9 B: n& I) NHaving 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。* |- _. i- r+ r! w: A6 N4 h
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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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& q2 g; y( z6 E" ^/ ~7 j/ g; R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。( |+ w* w+ G. p0 w/ B ^ j; u
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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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~% M- z& C* C7 D# s, b6 D6 c“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。1 ~4 Q. L% K2 R! p3 T V
1 x1 Y6 j- t% H7 D9 ZLife. 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." I9 u" E" M- d: G0 G$ F$ u
6 D# ?. V' [, d6 X, z0 W* E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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