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# N+ F: j- i8 d6 c' b& j+ K生命就是小甜饼：# z. c! t$ z% l3 Z
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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0 T# U# Q* ?) o2 q2 f' y* [! f. i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”。2 o" P/ R! b. R/ v" N3 }
/ @" X# X* Q/ q% \3 L0 P0 q, fIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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, M c2 [: A+ g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。4 b9 I1 @1 X& J8 e# f5 z
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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.2 v3 l4 M- n' k. P9 D3 o2 Z
t) [9 u$ ~, ]5 a( Q- g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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A 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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! T$ ^; d8 P9 h5 G0 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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7 r7 G4 e9 e: T# g" b W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。! D6 Z: f$ C: H! \0 h. 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.
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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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q2 q- j8 Y ~/ s7 K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.
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8 O4 q' w; m/ Y4 o- E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.1 Q1 |- t9 Z- m$ L
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。. T, ?& ~% t5 S. M! }1 T. L7 ~
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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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3 o% f B* d0 x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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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. "- u9 ^; o9 I2 Z; @( c1 ~6 {
' F a' j) b ~5 o! e' n' ~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。" E8 r! \- w/ f3 ]# K
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.8 t9 @: d0 n3 y) k M% l( j1 S
. y9 l+ ?( [: x% _“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。# v, N* R( w, ?
) r# L! o; ~1 \$ u" H0 E7 g. jLife. 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”。1 ~; H0 m0 h+ S; G) q7 P5 v
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