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生命就是小甜饼：% X& ~. ~/ j$ d, C3 x. ~
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.8 I/ h& e% o$ E* n
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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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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.. g8 m/ n' ?) z( N Q/ E
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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。( Z# h7 b$ D+ n; M' b7 t8 ^" ^ c
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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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* K5 o1 \* ]6 x2 h. N+ 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。
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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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3 \" z4 U6 r) ]& T" l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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5 a; c5 q+ A8 y. q6 Y( H% v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。) O6 [* Q- W, h3 P/ \
& l- D! Q9 v+ u, F+ q+ @4 `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.6 |* O% b- S$ Y
5 B- U( d3 }5 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。* w2 x9 [( _2 l0 D
9 O- r* `: H1 ?7 O( k% Y) I* ?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.* }: Y k3 o3 W$ z/ V$ H
$ j( [ J% b# z6 Z6 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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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。
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, h4 x4 y' ^6 M( n: ^You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.5 z. }% a& C2 n4 u- w2 I
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 m$ X1 _8 N2 g
7 o, W( n$ I+ n, iHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.# U. K- X* b0 I# m
' m' ~' s. {4 E6 [# 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。
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- u0 m" h6 _! K! {# P6 U0 RFor 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. "# S9 j9 N" L9 a; {
! p5 Y2 g# w2 q4 [1 L0 T$ B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.6 z* B2 p) ?3 {/ u ~
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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。9 X+ m( k4 h) W9 s
+ B( }# H7 t+ g, _$ lLife. 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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. a4 ^/ Q" d+ k- ~* e; U* ~1 X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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