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生命就是小甜饼：- k, G7 P3 i6 ^9 k! e2 L! 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.1 ~$ ~) S8 i: f3 r1 l: Q: h
6 q, u' q: C* {& X& M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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$ R% w7 H: A* z) [% S2 K# I* M/ } eIf 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。, q- K I1 i& _- ?" k9 A. ]
* ~4 z' g i: O& O/ {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.( U( |; \/ }1 U: S7 L; r, R
) X/ b" y4 |4 e; G* f: D% V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。- R' o( W. l0 G; i
6 w& o3 B( v$ W* H! WA 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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1 R: A# a" g' Z1 X7 D; ?( u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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$ J- P1 `4 K# SWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.3 D1 J- _5 H) L" n+ [- N
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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。
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5 z2 @) w1 M8 _7 G* U( O( L/ u8 yBut 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.1 C+ O; h1 ?& @1 q
( x2 C# K- p$ W- H" b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$ n7 h* X8 o* h6 @* 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.
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: t) E( q& |1 a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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$ p0 O. o7 l) X7 O$ n& ZYou 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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: V9 r! l3 B5 W& ^$ i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。2 C% I5 D& }3 Z* m
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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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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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: h) g1 H0 l, F# b6 q, l1 A UHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.; ~; f$ ~9 s& N1 {$ N2 g: q# T- A
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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。8 Q& j: @. t2 P9 w- j$ u1 F. p7 S
3 f0 I& t; D, s! N; nFor 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. "0 k1 F/ y9 F. n# T, R
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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。$ F. P6 d1 d% p
0 I! | S8 `# R4 H, wTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.4 n0 ~: f9 ^+ O, e' ~+ R/ N
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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。' L$ M: }3 }2 ]1 w
5 t) w8 h) m- ]; W5 t1 ^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."# `0 l O2 ^, H' v# P, k
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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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