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生命就是小甜饼：
9 g! D# K: i# ]6 }. E+ r4 c- \' xOne 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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* e/ D3 l1 d6 v! D0 O% k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.2 R* H7 S" @; }: g: R
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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。
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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.
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6 H1 p2 k7 ?5 d( c( v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。3 j9 [6 T v+ R1 i4 B" B
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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.) ^6 w# u- c. s% f
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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。: k. s0 |1 G8 k! V% |2 [6 f6 w
9 l0 {! C- C+ v+ X6 H8 N2 f: ?When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.: E2 x# U1 R+ ^* k$ [2 P" F
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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。$ F& U. e- P6 v: c
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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。/ Y @8 V' o; r% W# J T
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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.3 h$ f0 j& l% b) u
- T' L4 f9 R9 i% G, D+ N% \5 m& K4 }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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: W( [& o4 I0 f/ l' [* s! R7 R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。3 ?8 r1 \1 L) m& `& ~: }
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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。9 f( A' ?3 ]9 X( T) C5 X& z7 c
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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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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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6 ?: }) @5 z, U) S; g: W& Q- _7 Z1 C3 oFor 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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3 D* m1 e0 G; v: X$ u& n/ l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。+ x& ~* {9 x' Y
! s% F/ M- J+ _, ~- {. X# VTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.$ \/ |" D$ M6 S3 I+ p
3 L( D" v/ q+ ]: r! r: R“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."
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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”。4 j0 G8 [/ V! L7 f+ r: @* ?) i
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