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: I. @5 S1 l4 Q% r. W, ]生命就是小甜饼：6 ~) f3 q, X# a5 e
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”。) l9 E! z# t# a5 ~' {& y
: Q* g$ G7 G! h# H+ ?If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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1 g( F- W! M: X2 \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.: e+ b N9 k# T% {
3 [# y, g) I n! n# |0 ]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。% C' A1 ^1 H/ \9 a2 c
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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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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。- G2 g# J, Q" S; l
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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.: v+ f7 C% R1 c$ @
* J: D* {4 q$ `0 j4 R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。3 s" m5 K" l6 p6 ~
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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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, Z7 C8 l3 T$ {2 i4 N0 M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。) [5 v ]2 ~- i6 r! Y
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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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8 V5 f( u4 A/ D( |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 I& s; _0 m0 d- n' j$ z! d
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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. 8 ]9 L; d( n8 F
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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。" o9 ]4 F1 {( f' K; i. J/ [* N. h
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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.! v0 S" e, t( u0 {, d
5 i8 I1 Z& b; [9 S* O' P& y你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。$ u1 T) ~* c# z. y/ u
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him./ C! a. O( I0 y: l) A; Z0 P0 y, |2 I
. g) F+ y& a% r1 W" z% V- 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。3 P/ O0 U% ?3 |* O G
& O' x6 V7 @9 x+ IFor 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. "$ G* j# k d- r$ h/ X/ o
3 C4 Q7 Y* C, M/ M. f) w4 ]% 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。$ E) X) d% }; ^' f4 J
6 t1 E( n) ~. K6 q, _7 q7 m3 YTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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' `7 ?; M/ V5 K; v! E) q& t“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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