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生命就是小甜饼： I* x9 W8 L' A D2 l, X
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”。* W. T0 A5 S7 E/ ?9 B$ |. K8 q
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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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3 g" n( |) B, j- Z \+ H8 ~" ?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 A* C4 {3 }9 j: {, \) I% TSome 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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$ I/ B6 X! P, C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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: D* o7 w: N# i& q& K% o, ^1 x7 UA 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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0 C: q7 Z3 F7 ~+ J. j7 H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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! t2 q: i" z! bWhen 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。* e: k; W/ g! o, b# e# o+ Y8 m3 s
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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.7 M* Z) Q7 q3 d n7 t i/ L2 h1 F8 L
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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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/ `" B- L& T3 S" n, t' }5 r& ]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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, s) Y# D" Q( h/ j H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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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. 8 h9 A! ] j" w6 S: c
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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./ q; C- w2 H) x9 b" B3 B1 o
$ S: Q, G w- u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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& p# u; Y+ m$ Y" e, ]9 O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。6 F* |4 }0 [" \, U
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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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: F; x$ }" B/ I. lTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.) v# b/ p8 T" E7 h+ A" H+ M% v1 Z
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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。; t! A$ a4 O- w( f, n) z- j5 z% Z
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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."& Q; G! F D8 G, J. W
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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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