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# f- X8 Y/ Y1 b* R! M# M% e. {生命就是小甜饼：+ f4 u+ M( V" _9 Y# Y2 z
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.: l$ x: _8 R9 v8 e% [
" y8 g& w& M0 ~+ l5 g1 B" o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”。& K* r/ ?, I) z5 p9 C
( z) L. m; h: @3 q' n" i! ~If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.; C, N9 U) Q/ P/ }/ k+ h' ?
0 K* E8 x3 H. c/ I. ~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。/ N1 ]7 H, Y. f( d" n: E; J. Z" u
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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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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。8 G2 s( b$ } S+ D X( Q% y1 x) Z
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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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; `4 Z, Z, u5 D$ E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.1 V: n8 {. a+ B# D" C
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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。
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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.5 @7 B* t/ K. ?4 A, q4 ` s1 T
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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。 M( M, @. K: c$ r
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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.
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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。' B( Z2 V. f. V, E) d9 d
; _3 x" T7 y% K3 BYou 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. ' {/ W' {1 Y8 A5 a! I
; l/ d; c6 M9 f/ P1 X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。( J/ F ^ l& R! V4 T
( [% ?0 z$ s4 ]8 Y7 i" aYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.6 c. `3 h" i5 \3 j% a* I
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。7 M: ?" H7 g; @4 Z
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.5 u- z. D g' N6 F9 u/ }( i+ n
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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。; f1 U8 p2 D/ @; V5 v
" u, ?9 n$ p. P' o9 |# ^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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, W) J- O& d+ F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.: W+ H2 @ P" ^/ u$ R1 U
$ e- M1 a2 i1 ~1 Q“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。' l$ z$ R0 s. w/ S
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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."
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: O* z7 r" m2 w: m9 [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”。& U* z8 @1 Z# i* k: ]% d4 Z0 }9 E2 H
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