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8 B/ n0 t- W5 V) `, P+ n: V8 S生命就是小甜饼：8 s4 a P H7 W# w0 ?& d' V
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.
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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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0 a5 }! f& d. w- W+ gIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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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。. O" q6 j, Q1 J* a# H- h
' ]6 N7 W: C2 a9 [+ {' p2 jSome 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.: [% V9 ]1 W0 x& |& y
7 q2 ^. t# a2 g4 v; d" Z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." a* {( Y! k" a) u, x* X
& i* m' i/ }) Y5 O( t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。2 D( `6 h+ i6 S1 C) v
! W% h, {/ z+ Y* @7 |0 A7 _$ jWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.0 G' e+ e5 ^3 d4 u. ?0 b
. j$ T1 s% u+ L$ w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。
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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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" j1 I& s$ Y. F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。( l1 C* i, N0 M( O6 {( ^; L( d2 B
, k# U: W/ s: c1 N3 AThe 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.. D# S9 K4 u" k: o
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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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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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* p. E1 [" e0 h6 t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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l( j6 b. [5 X3 X# p0 lYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.8 v# @1 F! N! B& d
* x% L6 e% r8 L0 }& O5 G# u你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。7 w% {1 i/ ` o+ v
% R% v" k/ R }% AHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.7 o1 A$ N% ]% y
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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。( V1 `1 b) k2 W7 b* B2 q
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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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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.
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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 q9 F9 ^- J8 J3 `+ ^
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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."6 Z& I7 m2 D; d" I6 [2 B4 q
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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”。% r' x: _# l. Q) f; t/ T; I! {
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