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, `% i1 d0 w5 z5 J" }5 {+ `生命就是小甜饼：1 D: N/ s9 V c' V$ k
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 ]. m/ m7 l4 h4 r6 x6 {5 F1 K& z
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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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( M, ]. p5 d5 P8 C! qIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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& X* r+ E3 K8 D' a* D! ?8 D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。, F7 }2 K0 t. a
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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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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。
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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 `9 H. ~0 u- C- s
" g- E7 i. G, J! w, X9 N: ]- U, w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.* P, C) \, u. {0 J7 [; H* I
( c# y8 O2 Q( U( x; b: N" @ R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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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.8 g; [; O, T- L6 `/ g
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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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2 I9 Y8 |5 ]" y4 i4 r5 A) ?2 zThe 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. E1 i* g% T; Z- U7 c1 |) G& {
: P6 Y1 j& m4 F* ?/ {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。7 J* R- y9 @8 I
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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。. O1 f4 {; S, r1 O m) R
/ z5 k! P0 _' ?# t0 @You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.! n, q$ o Q7 g: @) `8 o
0 J: ?2 m4 ?$ j% Y1 i1 l你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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# U r: U+ b& ?% a1 F5 L) mHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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7 }1 [+ ?3 Z7 P! e4 ?' I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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! a' V) a9 e2 W _5 F2 lFor 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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: d( G( S5 Y( u- `. M- k, 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。- q1 @: n1 Y; J, v3 ^
& m+ H6 x4 N9 `5 FTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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% @- z# v& Y% Q# U. M: c( N“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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4 ~8 ~( S5 u6 p* T% U7 RLife. 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.") B2 S1 W- s! F4 u) D
4 P: O9 z" _. i( G: ^! b- h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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