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生命就是小甜饼：0 s7 w6 }4 L' y% n' ^
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.% S7 q: @2 `$ j( b. z
& n0 I J( i: L1 f8 i3 e- g, R1 B1 k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”。
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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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% L# X3 S4 j* }4 K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。" s# B8 q8 o+ ^$ e
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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.. v: R% v# O" x3 B# y* I4 \* Q2 H
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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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5 W; b! ]( S) X" g8 e" o, u0 EA 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.3 _, O& G7 _, {
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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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5 _" N5 e' ]2 D* G- U) gWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.8 w" `, d! I- ~) Q8 ^' B$ n. l0 B
% f, X% v1 A3 W0 q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。0 b% _2 D6 V) g9 e1 H/ k% x
; v4 g- f) ]+ T5 x- H6 SBut 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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0 V d. L9 ?; D0 n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。, h7 K2 p" y+ J) w
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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.8 T1 h3 W/ `( e( u& R/ S7 @( T
6 G9 Z* @: t; Y' a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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& x/ m' a3 c; jYou 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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' W. L* I$ b& ^8 N8 [9 B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& V( B& _6 k7 S F: T
( U$ r3 t& f7 j# T; `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。; H3 L* c# Q4 o" `& E
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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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: ]- J, |" {' h& _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。
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! Z4 [; G; `3 m' UFor 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. "" X' ^! l% W0 O6 N2 V
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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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+ L& [; s M# r1 [Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.8 m! ?: G/ [; k
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“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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% s$ T% _0 z# \- rLife. 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."3 F7 V3 ?+ c- |; m4 o5 b4 }
! g& B. q0 G; R+ `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”。* J/ v$ w- `; `
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