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) e" y6 }* B& Z+ N生命就是小甜饼：5 L) z& A4 ?; O9 X4 |( G- 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.# F5 ]; {% P. j! {
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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”。7 l& S: S3 r$ e/ u( H v0 L- T
: D0 e- G4 Z) s7 q4 X$ }If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.. Y7 D# d) I" P# E u8 j5 w" N
' X% t& J( v! ?4 } w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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" h7 h f& Z" u3 A: [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.% t: S! x2 _. T9 Q
3 N7 L# j: d O4 N" B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。! q6 f4 r: V U6 r5 ~0 W
5 t! p; }% f' W# T: R" N+ ?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.1 b' j/ _& i9 g( D) p7 l. o9 h: I: v' N
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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。2 J. N% l: b1 l
# x8 j! p+ X4 b3 L/ E7 M6 TWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.* V0 F6 K4 v9 J* b z
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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。; Z' n) {, F$ U) i1 ~1 L1 a
1 _4 d. l4 B& b2 N$ DBut 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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& @+ P6 j) N' Y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.( D/ G8 x& ~: U- {7 {" B
J3 Y& q* T3 j7 z$ I* K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。/ I. b9 e; V8 S2 s2 b6 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. 9 _3 x6 D: D3 L1 W( M
; n5 Y! `: i! [3 d& t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。9 C$ C8 n2 |3 ^5 n1 m
3 H; Q$ k5 {2 I" [You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.3 w+ Y6 G7 I& \" y' W9 _5 v: E6 M
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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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" ^6 Q3 p/ x- RHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.7 w/ Y, g+ |! B: X
5 x) s K" |: O U, W: P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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7 F6 D/ f: x- Y& FFor 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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$ |# Y7 N9 J8 g" Y6 Y3 }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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1 E/ o0 Z9 d! {+ ATwo 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。) s! l( Q) v" C# c
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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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' \" v/ P3 J+ a, E( u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”。! I9 l9 G `8 A. c( f0 Q$ B
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