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8 a- K+ u& y1 U8 i! k1 H5 Z生命就是小甜饼：7 Q, j; e' Q( P3 S
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.& B8 z6 f% Z/ g6 a1 r
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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”。0 k8 n/ l4 c9 R1 X; J0 }
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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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7 V6 W! v1 o, q/ r/ q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.
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! I1 |, L' y8 W% l2 j4 J8 o) s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。' u2 R8 h/ W% K' @2 A6 z" g) J
2 s" w U8 T3 F: dA 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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; d U* m" c0 z/ m# s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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- X3 w( z0 N) {When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.% G- Z3 K0 h1 n t
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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。+ t' I9 s; U0 k% D! N# \
5 {$ Y' ^0 R0 v. F0 TBut 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。5 \# E5 ^2 Q% e6 u1 p. G! `
1 f, _5 b, P* J) `# |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。
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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. " r. p9 J4 V/ P$ R( b7 S- Z+ ?. J, H
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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。, m1 _0 q6 I# J+ v; N6 I# E
) _! G2 i% o* S; X+ w5 dYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it." @- R: Z* O9 E9 w- A$ A
. s7 H, k/ A" F3 |) g- e- V+ w你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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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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" V, g' o* A( i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。! ?2 |/ P3 A$ @; H8 g
2 J: l( L( r ~( qFor 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. "& ~. G& w; B N3 O" ~ b
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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。5 m0 A0 _1 o1 x# {8 S
% [, ^" B1 p W0 fTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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( i/ E+ S! G( |; b7 {“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。; ^& n, q1 k G3 g$ g
$ p0 q$ [5 f" A/ d j1 C6 mLife. 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."# b2 k4 i+ d1 S" o
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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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