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& P$ U1 i* c6 Y$ S( M/ E生命就是小甜饼：. m0 q2 v9 Y/ ]# H
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.) \4 s- R# p3 z! r5 C4 Y* }
. l& C( T P4 _8 n, V( Z& l; G5 @ V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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6 q1 w! S+ M! }9 sIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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2 O+ I; F/ F2 d/ V9 c3 O* J# D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。# e; y. E# s- S
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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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3 y; g; ]# O; t, H! ?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。% j" N& a' m6 Y* ]/ i% E
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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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$ u) z- ? a' e3 v7 O4 K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.
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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。- q! }: P2 m u7 D
9 C7 A" d) c' j- o$ l; E/ oBut 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。" g P$ i9 K0 }: m8 A
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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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7 m" i- V! F% V( M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 T, L8 ]8 }8 ]+ U, f* C
$ Y7 @2 W& p+ ]. r6 ?% f 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. ! }- I% {6 @ D+ b/ o( ?
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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。! M# V# J8 E3 [' |$ W* z
4 a: S( v8 J7 _9 [+ yYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.. G) J B$ k! X. Y0 d# r# L0 |
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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., R, i7 ^3 Z H3 z
; t, s) k K" d" r1 o% c/ B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 I/ `7 p+ @" W
/ n: l# K& P2 _! L: zFor 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. "0 b9 @8 F7 A4 {# j- p9 ?. x
5 ~* [3 X0 y4 @ w; _8 q1 o" g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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2 w$ k5 G2 e( C' `5 e' eTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.. B: j* d1 c8 @$ D2 N5 F
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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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/ @5 a/ g# w. W! fLife. 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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4 p4 W# J& _ J& K. E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”。, }; s, V) y- k9 d. f1 b
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