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生命就是小甜饼：; E8 f/ I/ B' }9 u/ q' y
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.0 l7 o8 O$ @* G: {+ n8 z/ C$ i* P
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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.# O! X- L- z" D9 }* G: A( |8 R
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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。
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7 Z5 s+ K1 _+ Z- N2 BSome 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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6 m2 G9 W' }7 p. Q: l7 [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。0 w2 O2 v% `$ y5 R# b" L
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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.5 l% V4 ?* L+ L7 F; Q0 \
0 k7 p/ N( m5 u t$ Z# ]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.8 `1 V4 k; _& R: d: r+ R
! ^5 `% Q1 C7 g, X6 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。7 m" r: y1 Q$ e4 }% x
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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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: \5 N0 v, a6 @( k6 h8 k' b0 ?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。$ F$ c: u8 S5 B5 e
& X( A% ?. j5 B1 C$ ]- FThe 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。* L. j6 O* M. J3 C- h5 {5 @+ C
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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. , q/ X" c) U/ n' e
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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。: h- F [2 R4 A* R' Q
% C8 Y' E' `" zYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.6 A- [: g3 R+ z* R h; g, _& h* x7 R
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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.) d9 N; c+ h8 M ^
4 f) \# g: }0 P% U; 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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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. "
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1 y' u# d e& ]. g+ N2 L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。2 E5 S+ t2 i n% m0 \& h6 v: O
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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。3 ?* ^; g4 H h) k8 n+ B
5 L5 B% r- J' W0 r! CLife. 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."0 i9 @: @7 c% C5 r
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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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