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生命就是小甜饼：5 c w. c0 l3 X' C" L- i
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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# L& F6 |5 a' V, x; q* t# X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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4 A+ |' [$ l; N! X: ^6 mIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.; f& w& y1 Y Q! v: i( u4 u
- n" {# r8 }( S8 `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。( ^) l$ B k- M6 r: u6 W
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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.: x3 r( a; Q4 Z: T0 ~9 z
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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.& j7 D" W9 @, k5 K( u+ K
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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。* ~! F$ [; U6 e' |) x0 f0 c
/ l/ h' W8 ~0 M" V9 lWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.: s- v1 k/ t# E1 ^# x1 h- Q; @, C
" E T; P; [9 m) H( u) W! 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。7 c* o& Q) Q0 w, U% K
8 |3 ?$ O# ~3 \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。: b7 B: Z( N) N# n8 q$ A; p
. x+ U" X. r- c: }4 C+ R- JThe 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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. B+ ?! d# O; G) r3 _2 E# v- e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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9 W: l: I6 u M/ ]/ R6 SYou 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. 2 e) m' n7 S' a7 _! T
% ~: Z( O) s, B3 x H* E+ v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。
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- L% P% X; x$ G$ XYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.& Y- w: v/ i- m# q" }9 S' W
' D# y0 @' [; @' X1 p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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& L5 S: r. W- a! l, A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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+ N1 O1 E- V' k# K) |+ u* w, TFor 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. "
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1 Q5 S* \7 W" I. P# [; [) y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。: S; u5 ~/ H$ ]6 B0 S
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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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“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."& b. c; f8 ` q# A' |5 \
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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”。$ {# ^/ G5 V- [; {9 ]; t2 U' R
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