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生命就是小甜饼：0 j% h, ?2 R" E. L
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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7 o2 f, o3 L3 G& b7 h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”。9 b$ b% D/ X2 |1 g! e$ E" s; q* o
1 }+ [0 ]. r3 Z* M& [4 UIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.( Z' Y) u! `/ H8 ? A) u M
5 r7 K: @3 M- l- }2 U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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* E: F% [$ }% f8 RSome 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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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。1 [; Z. h/ P/ S z
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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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, n$ D0 o) x6 Z/ v; v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。1 l" X4 @% G/ t2 Z# E$ _
; C Y3 l* K4 ]: VWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.' I7 L6 m3 f5 h! o5 w
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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。+ ~6 G. m! c0 |: j: ~
- }& }$ {7 ~! n- j, o3 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., L0 P$ k/ D9 Y
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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。7 v) U& K( {7 ~
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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.* Q1 m2 W! p7 g5 L* E8 g" G
# x: F( |4 \9 m2 j8 `$ {" j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. % j! s4 Y/ t" e' p; `9 _
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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。+ f6 b. A1 C2 z @9 Z# w5 u6 g$ P
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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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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。& z" x3 B2 Q- P7 D# l3 U! `* N
% s; B" A; q9 ?& g8 lHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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0 `1 T& N& x) I/ Q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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( O3 i( P3 @* x3 X9 U% x6 M- FFor 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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! f: P/ R& c! ?: F9 U* v& ]" K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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0 f$ J5 d: W4 `" o1 P T" K hTwo 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."2 N! x+ U; M2 w% k `
9 L% l' K5 M; I |0 a* M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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