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生命就是小甜饼：7 A/ v0 H! W, e, Y! ^/ 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.
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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”。0 u2 G/ g9 m0 V, R
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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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5 }" I% }+ j3 {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。5 d! a2 X6 B! D+ k8 P) U& s
c$ A, J, V" w( [) v+ Z# FSome 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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' S6 a+ C P# ?2 ]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。; ?! e8 j# C. W
\+ j4 B6 t$ 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.1 V& C4 S, F. d. i1 c) H! ^: ]
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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。3 m$ l; ]0 h1 w" L5 E7 O& {9 n* R
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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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t6 l) [0 ` q0 N6 J0 XBut 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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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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+ w9 |# t& b9 l- ]- |+ HThe 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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% y- d2 C3 o. W7 i% ?$ P" 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。
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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. , h! n3 F$ j& u2 o6 q
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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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You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.0 _5 D2 B* g! l- y% k" B
5 w+ X8 @! l# j9 G* O' E# H2 t4 ?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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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( O* ?" E& q$ z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。' i3 z4 e! s8 F. }7 _2 P! L0 I( @
: y$ H4 K; @ l/ ]* gTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important., u$ Q6 |( \* ]$ g
8 Y' `( Y' B9 Z p1 [! ~“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。, j% U$ _, T& V
' m& \5 E" Q" j2 D# O3 GLife. 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."9 {( R( S8 G/ H% }# ~2 e
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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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