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9 ^! h2 \+ M+ }+ u; T7 q. X! v生命就是小甜饼：3 `0 q1 V/ P7 E2 W- X) T9 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./ \ i+ L) \( I
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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”。 J; y9 d8 X* q/ U+ \" q. w
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.3 k, E" Y3 B7 l* }9 g0 z
: ^. `8 t2 f& K! p `( W( r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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. ] v/ p' h5 L9 V6 cSome 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。
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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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% x" G" `' V# H7 G. c! ^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 O3 A( b: j8 j7 t8 j2 J C
E$ ^% b& s, q- [9 _7 lWhen 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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) e0 U; O* |% ?4 S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。5 i% p, `3 i- |7 {; f* ?9 U- x
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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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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.1 v$ `# |5 E2 E; V8 ^9 i
7 o$ z# l1 d5 S; P' y" A1 p* n" \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。- H, w7 n- p( U6 f6 ]) v
' k. Q4 W7 _$ X+ r5 }- DYou 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. . F: w5 R9 u! I5 v
) W. ?7 V4 G! R+ I) R G5 W" D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。! b. N9 L: ]' I
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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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7 ]) A" n' ], j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.5 w* k& H5 D! b& E# q0 p
4 X- j& T1 d" M2 {* b7 C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。2 x6 s: n7 ~2 \
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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. "! o: {, c/ J# x# X# A; x+ G( k
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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.
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) ~) e* R k8 Z“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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- y; Q ~6 [! A) j4 v+ Q: g# R7 c- zLife. 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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, V1 c: H; L$ a$ o6 k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”。, z4 L+ o2 Q8 v, V+ ] a; }
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