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生命就是小甜饼：
4 Y) O* t/ ?3 ]6 ]3 q" |3 V" A, UOne 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.- e. K" }; S3 z. [. B
1 @! i- _" x. K+ Y g; D( ^2 k- l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”。( Q, L2 o: M+ @$ c7 }4 i
! B4 _- X9 Y) I5 |! nIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.. a( k1 ^" _5 W# m
* k3 k+ k! B; c6 P+ z2 L; ~/ ]) g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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% A9 ^+ j& P9 f( H6 \" W0 LSome 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.' y1 F! E. w! T# p/ ~4 Q) u- ^9 Y
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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。( L! D3 L H4 l' G: x, b, 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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9 n% b+ K% N% @7 i; S' t9 C( G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。) B, N4 i- u- L. g! f" I: @! w2 S
% o- v; @' @6 p- v$ y9 ?) Y8 bWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.* [7 |2 `* P! X$ A6 w
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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。' _; R3 e& Z6 {1 S# u( N" |
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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.! u8 Z+ D6 a% ^6 L
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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。
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# g' C) Y7 [1 K/ W$ q8 [# {7 PThe 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。- @* P* H: f4 A7 e" t3 o
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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. 7 Y' b0 p+ z/ y0 B
* K) k! o* q7 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。1 m5 h$ ?' N4 G* K1 ~
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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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" X& j6 v/ I- w) M Y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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& C1 f/ x6 \+ ~; w* R3 x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. "3 {2 c" x7 k3 a+ ^; i- p8 i
( T {: ^8 V) _0 M: z! 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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' r1 {0 @' [$ j* v5 f! OTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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. S1 N1 w2 F+ ]5 W4 i“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。1 t+ d9 }- D, t
1 L z& I+ f. ^ q' `7 ILife. 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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5 o* I3 p9 ]8 u# T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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