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1 V: ?2 N9 B _! L! r. b生命就是小甜饼：& q9 v/ l/ h! w; A; I
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.7 m( X9 l! L( T; Y- C) Q
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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.# [' _% V8 e# K
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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。# d5 g' u6 @$ g3 N/ C l. V9 U
- |: @& O9 x8 L% `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.$ a) Y3 _' M9 c8 S+ v
, Q9 ?' i, t$ L7 d7 z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.
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9 h1 `9 P6 v2 K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。% U7 W E% |; h+ t$ l, z3 s9 J5 c
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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。
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0 _4 A1 P2 ~' f* p3 j0 K4 QBut 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.5 _$ a' ^; |0 ]3 H
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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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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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9 h$ s( x E' u, `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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1 u0 n" R) N( a+ n: n" VYou 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 k# t/ \# w% a, S- l ~8 _: D
/ V" t: J6 X% C9 i( A5 b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。2 W- L. H# i4 Y( h6 t
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You 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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5 w! c- k% X4 k5 p3 N2 MHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.1 V2 U! A3 P) e
" Y/ V' D' e* c7 q% w' X n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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$ z1 g" o% W. r& P5 y4 l% t. XFor 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. ": Q7 m( z6 n0 ^# v. J8 `
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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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^' J1 v0 @( j9 X/ Y/ E0 ITwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.! f- Y9 d4 r2 i' Y9 k% I% B9 @
) w" i5 T2 {1 T* q“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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/ O: e* y* }- x9 ELife. 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."6 b, L1 w/ J6 w7 o) U( I: {. U
( @. [3 ~1 p& W" S W/ n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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