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生命就是小甜饼：# \3 |7 Y- M: F q# R; L
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." R& Z) d9 X# y8 a
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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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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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3 @: t( U. C+ z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。. L K$ {- ?! |* f2 e" m. \
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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.+ e( L5 W7 h! U8 ]. U% w
) @) [# h: W' I9 k) J3 K7 r' _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。, e: K8 d* K% B4 ^- I2 d
0 e2 g) j1 J( K& u! lA 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.' T- D6 a! K2 X3 u
" @* E2 \0 Q& Q \" P* c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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& z; o( p" ^! Y4 E" _. o1 q6 GWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.
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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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3 R1 d2 w0 }. s+ _' 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. t; k( @, V4 r9 f# T
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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。$ P8 [0 C' p& H) _. `- f( |
: \* X: D9 F" U) {! rThe 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.$ Y; m4 X: f" x1 L" o/ x
6 d2 E4 v# U. m* E- r2 W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。9 z0 X8 p1 A- N6 ^/ T8 u! ?
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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. 1 i- ]) B) @& H: S
% {" F& g& l2 ]: C0 d. h: \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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! h/ r7 ?1 ?2 E! o" z6 C0 b$ `You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.6 L! |+ c. Z# z% R" K- n: e' u
J1 }4 R n/ D# L7 |$ P 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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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。
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+ D- B; ^9 i/ d# W2 eFor 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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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。3 C& n: j" @5 @. F, X* h) {
0 P6 z Z/ g; ^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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1 u' O1 ~! G. M# P& w( V/ 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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: S0 \/ e5 @( @3 ], I& v. R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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