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生命就是小甜饼：2 M; [4 d, C! ^7 C8 g9 B
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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3 X r6 A B4 j; Z" U4 U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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+ w4 ^' i" I7 A9 g) DIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. Y0 Q; a$ ^' P; F( K, r
, e3 M: { t. M8 @2 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。
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; y3 d) ^; |7 U( }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./ ]/ b1 t/ t3 z8 o& j9 F* i+ m
: }/ Q6 U2 w3 u8 N5 M/ u' h: 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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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.3 [/ P7 h( c* C) E! t- H. j
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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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4 q3 p( Z4 `* y/ N( i) QWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.' j" ^% S$ ^) ], [
# W8 m0 h* o" T @5 J4 a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。 K* }, z1 P4 p4 q
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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. z( s8 j' K3 N
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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。
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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. q% ?8 I+ c$ V1 {: N1 z
$ L+ ~8 B# o2 D: F! D1 {1 b" H3 e0 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。5 p! T1 s8 [/ `2 v3 E: P( i g
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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。
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9 p" u( l+ I1 Q7 M, @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。% P7 o1 U' D v
' o+ J/ a% V$ M& \# lHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.: a2 A. X, z) m" n1 o2 w$ h( k
7 P8 l9 b6 P6 B& q* r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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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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9 K2 C5 ^6 P7 c1 ?3 T! QTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.! F; d! i/ B {. Z0 T [! o+ n6 ]
/ g3 I( u5 }7 K; j. j A7 @“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."
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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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