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生命就是小甜饼：) B) C( ^& X" t ~; e
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.# h5 p" U# s! G' V+ H' G; t3 g
) S" o6 m! z0 r4 _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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% c# k, @1 S6 H- p1 X$ x gIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.9 p9 X) r- x& G2 h$ A8 d
6 W: h5 Y8 @2 B2 I$ O$ Q/ D7 {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。 K* ^- @6 W# F0 n; H
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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., Q$ |: |- H) p5 {2 b
# i- |2 r: ]1 @6 E; @, E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。: h. D" \" E3 A; J% I: |. W" p
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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.' T4 S) \3 s# Y# M4 i
+ b0 q1 x: J- K# A9 b* P4 U2 R: 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。
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; `, L6 F. y& A* }When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.. b/ w, X2 P- _- i
; y$ ~5 |. K7 r4 Y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。# {/ {9 \' |/ V6 J( ~! B
* }+ M) n; |; P% wBut 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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# p3 n& g$ z( v, [9 u' s* U0 D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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" t4 T8 {1 d) \7 E* P/ @8 Z9 R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。# z j: K& z! @/ U2 V! t
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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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6 M- \+ T8 |, U' P9 e' x2 N3 t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。: t* H- a! y' H4 @) m/ N0 Q: ^$ M
# X" n1 O' G7 AYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it./ J' D( j, B p! \: k4 Y
0 X9 h. u" \5 C0 l" ]0 T你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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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 Z8 N- O8 W! u n9 G* a+ v4 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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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. "- R- z. T8 z$ [/ O! [+ w
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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。$ F* U9 p+ B2 {; _# W3 x' ?
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.7 [% G3 u, ]% x0 F" o, G; I
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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."
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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”。! I) s$ [; {& N1 x
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