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生命就是小甜饼： F8 X) I6 X( M4 A2 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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z0 t" ^5 a! M: B& L! S: a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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$ i3 N$ h$ |( [If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.% C" `6 }" q5 Q/ l
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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。
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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. r2 A8 l4 S3 U/ y/ o# q# `5 s
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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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: K1 C$ {" [5 fA 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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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./ t7 @3 v) b( r) j2 l
' h. ?% t0 W5 l) Q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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! k. v) r. [9 P' 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.: X4 ]; s4 E1 M' f o
0 K" D/ M& a7 _' z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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( a' U, o5 W- q9 Q4 ? O1 iThe 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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2 M4 v) d+ t- M8 {( W* A g% M3 C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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9 h! R6 E/ T2 l) }0 X" XYou 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。# n3 K \# ]1 i2 }* F! n
) T- D8 X# O8 x) y0 m! d; i! FYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.1 ^- |1 N) V. M5 W% G# N
3 W2 K: Z4 }+ c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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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。+ Z! w7 Y0 ?& k( A' H* M* V
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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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# ]7 S, O; k8 I0 d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.
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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。
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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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$ f* z! @1 {5 ?4 z1 K/ }/ N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”。! |- Q( y% v+ c7 i9 W* n
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