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' o# N9 u2 ~" C6 g" @/ {3 Z生命就是小甜饼：
" {7 P$ P; N9 a" D2 d% ?( | {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.
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: ?( {. Z) y0 W! r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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8 T: I" {# O. j) h9 `3 J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.) X( v" ^) A7 X. g6 w$ N
0 X) |! k; a2 f6 P4 d6 i6 Z" b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。- {- J8 y& r" S) `' k
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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 O* U! u. N1 P6 }3 T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。9 U; a- ~3 B' N% d8 \0 w. ^
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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。; _( L" }' q- v/ ]9 T* g" |) u
4 y! } y6 j. E0 |0 TBut 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.: u8 m: O! i' f# ^
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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& z! M: p& L$ d2 T# n
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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./ v8 \ S5 S* }3 \- |
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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。
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8 w& u8 U: }. ]; m6 ~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. 3 e/ p. J9 b6 j- P/ F+ {* j3 Q
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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。4 a5 E4 g$ l5 B' t3 _2 v8 t9 W
' m5 N1 M# k& O% O: z, jYou 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。- ^7 N. D& Y! g1 q3 H6 r& |8 [
9 i# v; N3 v4 G- P/ [Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.6 a* W% ~0 \! C+ N5 E2 o" s
9 `0 J) S4 q9 U/ f; r+ [8 A8 B5 `- ~- M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. "
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( Y9 t3 g. ?8 y9 E' P6 d# n3 u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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$ A& X9 P" V2 ?) VTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.4 s0 {1 i- d2 r( A
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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。0 F$ j+ I6 M" W
) t$ p) Z: R1 aLife. 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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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”。+ j5 N6 l f4 d% y5 ~9 ^
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