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2 @+ R+ A' [4 K6 ?3 }生命就是小甜饼：" |( [4 b' J$ F1 f# m- M
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# I" m [
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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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" L; V0 b h" n0 S: Z$ L+ U) c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。( b: Y- L9 R: s5 j" j } j
) S! z# y0 f5 y: ]! u7 VSome 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.
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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。% E" P, b, {6 F q \
. U. j0 r& T7 _% OA 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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$ P$ K8 N% |0 |, e* x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。# i4 ?! C$ ~7 W$ M: U5 y9 K" H% d! M
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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.6 |6 r. j; F' h
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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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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.$ W; L7 U( l1 {' j2 v: W' }. I
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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。* O, q# ~$ | ]3 @7 Q
w: r4 s0 @3 `& c3 O2 P+ G$ MThe 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.. e/ n: h- f: C( P; |6 L; y
" t5 R' E T8 @# j* B1 }8 K, }5 J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。$ [3 X2 \4 {4 a$ a
+ A7 V8 U/ t/ T% JYou 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. 2 {+ R( e# l# r# ~6 j% y
: z. N# c4 G0 v0 h: c. ]$ 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。
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8 G& ?! O" e+ V' sYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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+ C' Z$ \" Z$ f* O8 ~7 {# Y8 ]4 f0 x你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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- q; X1 O/ W2 r9 c) dHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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4 J7 Q; X& u) D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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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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5 G! {$ ^0 {2 Q, y" s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 U9 d( l9 Y4 u/ g9 s- F( e# M1 [
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.1 a2 J* g% V: y. l$ G" K% T8 m: g2 E) [8 h
) ~7 Z' k, K- F, Y( R/ R6 u“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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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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