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生命就是小甜饼：7 D4 c. {: x5 ]3 u
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 B! f- e2 g3 @2 W3 U+ Y
( v* ]6 \+ h- _' Q$ K) b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.
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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。- m) c3 b* r6 d- i) a- p
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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.! `/ ]9 d- ?) Y" H* ]6 c
, t. c" J1 y% J1 _) B9 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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. v2 N! P1 v0 j/ E3 n6 S1 z3 XA 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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5 |* [7 o/ Y: |8 K! Q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。 m. `5 Q/ ?' V6 w% W1 Q! o* L
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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.% h% `0 _% K/ U
- _; \8 a2 E' ^( P5 n+ s y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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3 y; r$ U. k! P/ W& HBut 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.. M. X' X L5 s
8 f; a6 e: O( R; k$ K- ?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。- V2 R7 Y [# [
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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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5 F4 Z* L+ v' A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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9 `* \: z+ d2 W. P4 n& F2 i1 ~5 hYou 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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, H5 ~8 d& }% g) v1 f3 c- {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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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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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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; Z9 H6 G1 K, L! Y" g# ?0 E! eHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.5 r, P( Z: s, C# R1 I! b
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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。! H6 V1 x2 A# s9 A6 R* y
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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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: Z! O2 f3 V, w" _9 {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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" z% ` g( a0 L. {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。) C9 j5 c7 Q" w+ n) g; c4 U7 H6 Z
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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."" k6 j- R. a: p. q/ A
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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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