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生命就是小甜饼：7 h( F0 d8 n0 n0 U6 j6 r# Q8 B* x! a
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.; J6 s$ p$ G4 N+ G' ^0 }$ w
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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”。# N2 S" `# T$ N
0 N5 I8 Z3 J3 S: q) t: Z pIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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' |5 q) V- i4 n0 W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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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.% z5 F2 P, V* S3 ~2 r- |& { r
* U8 n* r" K7 H+ ?( _5 g, X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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0 Q3 k3 H* v/ j3 S( O1 f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。: `, K+ E5 k" v; `
% ]; A" g# W4 h. \; i6 q0 z- U% P. ?When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.$ C8 a! m: o, L9 U, 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。6 r# V' }- `0 V# D& w$ m" ^ _- w) M- C+ R
l/ J9 j" U# U9 [2 n1 EBut 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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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。5 x9 o, d1 J) w- G& j! u" l! k
7 Y) Y$ }7 m- l; }4 z0 V1 }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.4 b# s) N7 ~/ z4 ]% J* g, u
9 v1 s) ~# z0 N+ t! d: H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。1 C; S5 K! m) t6 C* [0 j( }1 w
0 u0 y+ e: Z# i& q/ g* K- \( CYou 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 |" j3 T% _( X
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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。( ]6 o0 Y$ [! z( ?- k
9 W+ C' u/ D6 WYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.- D9 T& p3 ]( L; h5 U- _$ y. b
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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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. s5 g) Q7 v$ C+ G( gHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.) x$ ?2 a6 {3 d
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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。* O8 C5 l; F; C
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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. "0 w/ c) B% Y4 v/ k, C
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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.. f+ o1 {% K( _4 @
/ i& A7 i% A% T; f. h“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。
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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."' W: S$ K) k: x F2 {
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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”。! [) _; i3 q# k. V' R6 z; M1 Z
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