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生命就是小甜饼：8 W! V S% a& K# P
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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% J$ U' J7 g2 X7 ?0 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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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.0 D4 D, _- Y8 u1 s5 K9 B
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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。7 W. [6 X) X5 e1 g- F' Q7 d; o
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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.- K1 r! X* x' v& j+ ?4 U/ R/ q
, P+ M! \7 J$ C( j7 s& i4 P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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1 ]5 [# b9 C: w; u* j* M& sA 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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6 C" I9 n. k% f' Q j. }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。& A% V( ]- P% f. \; O
( I9 u, i" x2 q6 U8 b5 F6 O4 @/ TWhen 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。
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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.
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. f( l: {8 I) y, S) l4 V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。8 G( q# W) I) N; 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.
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: [, v& |) j% h9 r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。, w7 P5 [4 b( u! l8 T4 N
- L, @6 {' L) a8 |- E0 J+ TYou 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. 2 d @% ^; H' x8 [* U' y ]7 [
$ Y+ a! _& U' `1 }$ D9 |; o4 u% [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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4 |' N, w/ m# _8 W; bYou 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。6 R) b3 n) V, t# n+ J7 n" l g
: V ?; t6 j4 R2 dHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.0 n/ L! C% A# o& I0 Q9 Z
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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。
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, D- v. o& I+ d* C8 ZFor 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。: o+ T! f3 K9 o& h' \/ [+ [
9 O. _1 Q, r( i3 [Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.* N+ v4 g4 V' u9 f9 N u
4 X' C4 L: j9 m“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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/ e( l9 R& o2 I2 p1 pLife. 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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