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生命就是小甜饼：5 K7 G* t5 ^+ G% y; t
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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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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9 @9 V# z1 r# n+ V/ j: F# P- ? @, _If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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4 f1 P# N& X ?" S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。; D# N& P! C+ m: x/ K% M
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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。
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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.) E- |1 ]0 M& |
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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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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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. v6 l' n6 ?) F; W2 U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。/ O' \! y; c) z j* ? x7 H
5 X, A+ {* l7 x& a/ }( O! nBut 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.& z0 E) V6 D, ^1 T& K8 h
a& b. T/ L* \6 D! U7 Z. p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。, x. V" W& \% p9 h0 `4 Y) `
7 Q% y3 x2 i9 RThe 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.' S" H: R# U5 O) Z. S$ N- J$ \
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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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+ V" T; ~" U' M, g5 [9 l5 Z* @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. # d; _) y" u) ~3 A1 f* O7 n
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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。8 D6 [2 S9 k2 g) O( n" w
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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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! s4 p% K1 R0 g' R% u" z你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。* k: c6 w7 k1 p4 D/ r+ {6 [
; W D! W7 O. rHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.8 X6 [" ]7 D) Z6 \# b. V3 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。: \7 \) {9 Y. e7 |
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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. "# y4 _8 t. @7 A- P8 {: |6 y t; K
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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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. @# q3 `& a3 S" [Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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& d% o) l" I+ Y* D0 |“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。7 D: B* {% n' m. @; G 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."
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v. P; C( U4 a. Y7 R" @$ X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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