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生命就是小甜饼：7 m2 c% Z7 P! C6 S7 y# s" L/ 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.% K& o- Q* e! g! C9 ]) |$ b' `
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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”。
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- j8 C* w& c3 b) [7 T, y) DIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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/ V- G4 s& K# z/ E: ~% I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。$ V) O. A# c% [0 B w0 y j
- t/ b: v% I5 Y1 |" `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.7 v3 F+ M! \5 n- P0 v6 N
" i3 T/ s, c* T2 _% A* K/ p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。* E1 y" h' x' a& e7 W1 I' |$ _8 r$ z
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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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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。* E& w* k0 A' @. \6 A
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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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/ |- m0 s+ f) _" R8 h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。3 f4 t0 M* B4 ?9 \3 f7 h; J9 U7 v
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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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4 R3 A+ U7 n6 e( u8 g! [% _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。
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# V: c- m! b1 UYou 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. & S6 p; {6 m: s* j# f$ d
8 P; l8 @$ Y* ~# b7 w9 b, O1 t8 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。5 d3 N3 o( M- ~7 F& s1 \
' F% ]$ R) Q. W; _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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% ~5 E* k1 Z5 u( @# |你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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/ J" m3 h5 }0 K3 P* k! \Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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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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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. "( @$ y0 o/ B3 R6 U7 k1 m
r8 U( e8 }: I0 _9 `, F3 Q2 w3 s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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) w4 {9 G8 h" l( p# lTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.- u* W% G7 u7 r" o! F! d7 ~
" e& _1 E) w. B p6 X( V“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。5 S4 O" L4 ?! ^% Q5 R0 {2 v
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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”。
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