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生命就是小甜饼：2 G' W+ G8 O$ B; S1 G2 }& H
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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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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- V8 P; }2 p* Z' { W+ 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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1 I3 W6 Z- u6 a, ^# B# nSome 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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6 t- o4 e, w7 {9 {% u& P9 f" S: O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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) F$ f8 @+ r% Z+ v" JA 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。. X9 h4 x( M$ a, P) w) Q- q' l5 l
+ d- ?6 C+ j/ u9 ]$ XWhen 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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8 r# W! U! ]) a2 V' | k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。$ E+ C6 `: d4 {. d8 n6 `
: {+ T# v5 o9 L3 G) n- ]! OBut 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.( e( d6 s3 X) G1 p# f1 |/ w
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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.
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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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. \! ?% S/ y+ q0 a* nYou 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. 0 g! j8 A2 ^* M& N {: i- D: `
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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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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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! h7 h* k; b8 o1 y3 z你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。5 u4 f8 U- i- k0 W" X' f
+ |/ G# {8 e. n, AHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.1 O8 o( E8 i% |+ U
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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。* i2 O% M0 }9 h$ S2 y3 ]( U$ z
) H$ F& k& p- Y6 [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. ", `& p) n( G/ J9 i, r4 l& ~) g) I1 p
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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。9 q$ r+ P: t& i2 O
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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.": w: b1 O) p2 E8 G. [( d) z) o
# e2 U/ R( _6 v7 C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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