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生命就是小甜饼：8 w$ e5 s; l9 W, g0 _& d/ H# V8 {3 Y
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.% _/ @2 D( z2 L6 L% c3 o/ I
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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”。
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5 {1 J+ ~' _0 h. W. cIf 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。2 e4 O, _" [2 X9 i k8 d% R9 K
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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.5 r5 c' w% @1 W# J
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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。, Y. |" @" b7 N7 I& w( U
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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.7 ^! L4 |8 b3 x) c# o. X% [
& _2 y2 v' N9 c0 R% b4 ^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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When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.5 @1 h7 J: C& B9 E0 u
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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。
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# f, v; O6 u! z+ X0 F( p, s) `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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- x2 g# q& b5 f$ ~- v% J+ `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。1 n* x. D4 ]( t8 W) s8 C
2 h3 v3 t3 b, f2 W; Y s, ]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.* N1 \6 R8 R7 l' ?5 @
, ~* ]0 o& b4 d$ ]( k3 e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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% O; Q) g# ~; T7 ]9 v1 wYou 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. % Q$ G2 k5 Y7 y, |! m
1 _& N& T$ T" B# z* Y' T6 ?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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7 E+ o5 c5 v hYou 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。
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" ~; j6 [$ m' }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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4 {/ C% o# V3 F- d5 @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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9 Z! q; [( d5 v" [- p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。/ i' j* C' a' ]: Q7 _# [! T' C
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Two 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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# b& l3 W1 @ ]# N6 iLife. 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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$ ?; u! y1 J1 G) D% V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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