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& ~- Q# a+ ?8 w" b# P0 O生命就是小甜饼：3 _3 k n' B: h# Q/ P+ R
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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3 k9 }2 \, }( M4 OIf 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.& o9 e' s8 g& S2 x% C& t
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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.* R! G' L) c% @; f; E8 p
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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。( C! q; r* j: F @. L4 A
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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.3 C! ~2 |5 ^0 [- e# r, K' j+ L
$ K k' S/ |! }% F+ h" M: F7 P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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$ r) R- A0 h) Y. z! M a; mThe 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.: C7 H, y0 U8 V# }7 E( S" z
2 q& _$ g1 |' ?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。& A* e9 n/ R8 ^. O+ W& j, Z
8 \7 e1 h. k4 l) T9 w" k. q* v% d f* iYou 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. 4 t2 X, r: ]; h# S/ c- |+ d
7 l8 n0 \- W/ O8 o+ w; p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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" i# A; o- }. H1 H9 u8 i. aYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.: l4 P- O+ X- O" B, T5 O; a/ q
4 u6 f$ b, C6 z% }; k5 B) h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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9 `. ]' T" G$ z9 c$ Y. ~ g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。/ m* e4 x" V% S% @
) e! S2 U. a( WFor 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. " J- t. q6 r8 T/ p1 G) P
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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。
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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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“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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n e' u* a6 K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”。% Y, L2 y+ r- h
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