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, {$ W! | I. J! z" s1 \* E生命就是小甜饼：# l$ f; B! d/ c# ~, a
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”。* u: l" j1 C; q7 W* L- {" f
6 o* }/ {. A! L/ g: Z+ EIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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/ @9 F0 N- p& l) D" z8 v0 z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.
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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。7 D& W. n( ?/ Y( {6 `, T& o
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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., X2 j b/ s3 D6 @( ^
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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。
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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. w0 C2 @; o+ r, r$ I, S
# E( T( p, d9 W/ b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。! o K% S3 }& ~" h# k
- A2 F$ X& \- c g8 T$ t" z3 WBut 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.
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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 l# A! o, Q' E
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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.
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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。" C/ V6 c1 {6 l0 L
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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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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。$ `! D; D4 @4 ?& P
! O/ _) h3 E' r. } ^- ~Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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( n( h- Z4 `' B( t7 g8 N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。% y4 N, D& d/ T# T3 y
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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. "5 O( \4 L+ [ R. {7 e
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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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1 X/ V8 l) }: B1 K4 W" b“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”。" O2 L6 ?) h) v- n- M5 J; s$ _3 _
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