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( j- g) D4 v M8 [" {生命就是小甜饼：7 g7 G/ h7 a4 {, Z, t' H/ G: i
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.: e1 c4 b0 l' V" u% g2 J9 B
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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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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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' u1 _- Q; I; f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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1 Y K, L; o |% j! u \: S& jSome 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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A B! M. {7 p0 O0 h2 h+ X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。: T# G0 n9 c6 E
% P# t" N+ |+ J) h. @, u$ e9 jA 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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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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. N6 B. m: Z6 e) o8 kWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.
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1 X) o* k, p- Q. i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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" X7 g* D5 W" r3 C# z L2 cBut 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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$ z4 U* N& f0 iThe 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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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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, a: n7 y% B% C9 m! E+ b b) FYou 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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( n1 e2 `& Y, l! F7 vYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it." f+ W7 K% J7 ~* j
( r6 X% p9 {* D% w) } d; h7 t a你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。7 P2 \/ D6 ?4 H% U, K. O
6 ?9 q" q& Z/ r& C" o$ L( CHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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3 Y* t$ I* H- N* a, t- H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。# W: J' [; F s& x8 K0 R
8 A; V! e3 m: x+ N0 O$ X) `" S: |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. ") ^& b8 O' u8 [: @% r& g
6 p$ \- o; A5 ^7 y- ^! z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。! E$ D" t, Z! T. Y& p6 ]( R% U2 e
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.( h6 g9 F# H8 i" e+ H
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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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$ a8 P9 H3 j+ v0 K# ?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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1 X) ]& g) J5 ^ f7 m$ {6 f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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