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4 H' @; s* c1 p, d8 A5 J6 ^/ e5 q生命就是小甜饼：7 b( `- U# S5 R3 K5 Y# e
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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8 M3 K Q0 g) R2 c( S; C+ f3 z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”。7 Q7 Q& i! ]; x! Q/ [+ |
# a: Q% @ ?4 T: |( D& mIf 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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, H$ s) o* P: }- oSome 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.& l# l3 `# j& C- w5 |3 L
0 D5 n [1 y' F6 A; b; p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。2 \) s; ~& f( }: z9 c2 I) P( A
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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.6 e- j1 c$ A: U# o# N
: D" p* ?1 q) }" a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.. g9 W+ A$ G& @) q
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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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2 ~/ m: `$ u. v" q1 K, [9 PBut 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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$ ~" [$ R$ Q/ l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。( @9 T$ S& D; Z# P* l6 `, 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.) h8 R" @& W$ [/ J9 c$ P
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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.
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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。) K: H8 r, c& ?$ H
! E) A# e" s2 ~* |- d$ FYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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W( {5 s# P# \* y2 [7 n% E' d" ^: ~你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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' R4 p! }0 T! G/ V6 N ]- @Having 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。% V: M- L" k) g: Q& T5 |- D
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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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% Y4 l! g# H4 R) H: m; [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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! E/ d( b+ ~9 O' O0 y“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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) T- V8 u( E$ t* 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."
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8 \. z4 N" d8 w& @' q 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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