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1 g* G4 e& W d+ e! }6 [生命就是小甜饼：" F) I1 Q3 n v$ i! F! y
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.8 o' ~2 J W# C) N, Z: ?% Q
7 ~3 [$ |* W! m+ Z* E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。
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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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" `5 @0 J$ r9 A7 k8 m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。: K9 l# k( l1 F- x8 ?
1 w$ R/ U2 @" L4 ?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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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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1 e; K' v2 H0 b7 `8 r; j; @6 _When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.% X6 k; z* q1 p( F0 G& R
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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。- G5 l# `# c) i* z8 [ z* s
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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.) h' c7 l" v& }3 d
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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。' ^8 J# J8 y O' e* J3 {* @2 z
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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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& y% [( [. K1 N) w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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& a5 x7 S0 ^9 L5 U- i, X6 R3 }3 rYou 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. 1 t1 Y$ g; {4 U& G6 t, a0 [
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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。
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6 z, |4 L m! U' v( NYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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2 A% {# b- W& O6 i# d4 p; b你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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' {& P5 }- [) r! z( J# n' v. o; u" FHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him./ j- T/ o- c: L" @; G# z% E+ W
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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。) O/ v7 j* B* Q1 y( ?) {' g
" B2 k5 e" P. x. u& z! cFor 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。8 [6 b6 P7 H2 q- r+ g E0 z4 @9 V
& }3 S* M6 [, M( X1 ]5 BTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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5 z8 k+ k7 k0 f7 a, t“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."! n: g8 l6 G M6 i% P: U
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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”。# g4 v$ o1 r( I) J7 ]/ R3 w
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