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生命就是小甜饼：' A+ k# N% u. K, G0 J+ ?4 w# P9 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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- M+ y4 J. G- c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”。8 _7 a" }7 K3 m) U) U* K; r. R
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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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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。' d) k+ o' o8 R$ M; E
2 F* d9 D6 P$ K) a! P* f/ oSome 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.- Q3 J, W7 g2 F1 Q! q! L( A( U
) w; \: p5 y1 W9 Q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。- F% J8 _ \* ]
( L5 k8 h; t4 W0 K d, VA 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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. ?& a8 D6 B; Y3 X1 ~; Z2 T7 M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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h8 @% [- \9 R+ fWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.3 v; i7 ^% h, {7 R
( d+ L! B, H0 Y$ o4 j1 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。
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7 w) Q( [; b* L0 }. C5 LBut 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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+ A* P3 g+ S! w- t5 \5 m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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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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* f& B2 w" r" a1 n2 h& \- H你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。) z) S% N- `7 q5 E
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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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+ [( m# `* ]# @7 m: M7 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。
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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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) o& \- y) J$ s& F9 h# E8 R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。' a+ F$ q5 i6 A3 R8 L1 N$ R
# P# i, J5 s. @" T( i' i* STwo 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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5 I9 Z; U& G) E% T: j+ _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."" a* ]$ C3 R& j0 [) Z6 |
) q* t/ e6 w( A* g2 D+ S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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