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3 R, ~2 j) J6 a8 s3 n生命就是小甜饼：; ?* Y& @3 E0 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.3 p: N% F) d( B' L% n2 f
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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 x7 K' ~" {& u3 m
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing." K9 n( K" _# e2 z) D" Q
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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。( p* s7 A. {" P8 ?( [1 V
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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.# D5 g/ \, w* @1 R& U4 F
V/ B; ^% Q% m' c% `" }! A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。2 ^5 ^3 ^6 }7 ?! ]
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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./ a9 o3 j- z% w& {& @2 x# x
/ p3 k4 v+ q/ h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。) ]0 @$ B+ C: l! r6 {
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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.' S+ X% X/ `# n- x1 `
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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.0 \4 r) F: p: I6 m$ F6 k) ?
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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。 H/ b; H( D7 P3 p- F+ n
! r6 k% P: t: a( w" ?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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, ]0 K# V& g& _2 e1 \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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4 k+ D; r7 _- q$ o$ D9 fYou 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.
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) {! M5 ?+ x, Z" S5 l$ S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。, U. N8 }7 M& g4 [
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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." l3 k# S( p/ m I
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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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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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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。& S- z ^# u% K1 z! ] o
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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. ": Z2 H5 G% M6 n1 G1 h4 A. Y
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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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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.: f: q ]9 t# @
' r) O% ^/ a% a) @& C“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。( `; B: Y! w( ]9 i) G1 ^* J, O
1 ~- t T' H8 \ g& B) \3 M* O' 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."# E3 R( Y. f+ |0 I. I# `
; D: y! X0 m4 L5 `/ N) j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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