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生命就是小甜饼：* X' R! g; i5 V3 ~& P& h. ?, I& s
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.! a! i/ Y( q) R9 M! B4 j3 ~
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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”。# u" y9 H) r- ~/ [) X b( U, ]
]- F5 w2 U: C! X" M5 g" `' sIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing., C! d1 l9 _0 W* n- B+ J) O, W& {6 g6 k
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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。# v2 @& `, I0 M
7 T4 Y. Z( s- ?! c' t% WSome 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。+ g! U9 Y' b M$ ?
9 Y( G* X3 l8 F+ X" K6 g. lA 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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6 t- m3 j+ @ s2 `4 B! O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.
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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。8 Y; u D' A' ?! Q& y2 x6 r& U
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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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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。# N2 a6 G% a2 d
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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.# ^) x0 `/ c( n/ P9 ~* w) L- a" {
; I! l" ]4 p6 ]3 `& H' l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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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。" x0 k1 W2 {6 f7 j0 ?; R
k9 i- i6 ^# s1 ~. SYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.1 f+ i M" S& x+ ?. b9 t
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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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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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7 T+ L$ g4 x6 D* Q# V# `1 _% q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。
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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. "" t$ b# U- v3 O( _% d0 i: u
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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.. }+ N2 J/ E0 v- Q4 F. v3 M
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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。 ]& T f$ ?% T$ l" P- V9 R
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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."' p$ e/ F1 j3 `, w$ m
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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”。# E. r" V( ~( o$ P
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