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生命就是小甜饼：! U/ H+ f5 M0 b' n' Q- |& }
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.. d: a& e/ ?; Q8 e/ d2 h
6 h4 S. q- \; m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”。# r5 k! P f, C
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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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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.! n& P2 O! l7 s( \( l, h% q, }
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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。4 L7 P6 \1 J- v* J- t4 I
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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.
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$ {5 W/ ~( B8 a, h) r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。+ o6 V* H; m4 g; Z; z; E5 d, w
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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.
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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。/ J% _, Y; l- O5 A5 F
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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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7 v' y( o* h8 n) K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.
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" e4 v H- r7 L& R/ P1 M( N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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4 M' [# [% m0 G$ n/ HYou 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. 9 P M+ n ? ?9 N* R/ i, y9 I
' p- m- O" h3 E! o5 q! R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。# f) }1 J& B& R7 R( U2 E7 u' Q
; y" }, O, R1 D) x" m2 YYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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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.8 S) O( R( `* r3 H- h' U
, l5 F& G3 `+ l- k# D0 Q1 B5 q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。9 l% r. |) A' f& m) n2 C3 R! `; i
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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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; @( j, n" g- r7 a& U" L( [5 j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。8 `7 V5 {' F. K7 j0 k& O
4 y( T& p5 D! ]% |Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.% {6 _4 n! k; d) G1 `- [
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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。, A' j- F- h# Q# E
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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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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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