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生命就是小甜饼：7 ]+ ?, G/ ]0 R. i3 S
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.5 J' R9 c4 F4 h) |2 W7 X2 V
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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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4 o8 d# k1 v1 Y3 P0 w6 MIf 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。
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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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4 w2 y5 u; K: M5 c' |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.& O4 Z$ n2 X" _; x
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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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When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.8 t3 G' ~! C @1 Q8 Q2 ~
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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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, c+ [' _+ Q H3 y ~0 DBut 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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) Z" \" N/ ]$ Q8 h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。8 X: n- S+ F% a7 v1 X Q
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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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# ?" {* @& K# Y0 v2 }- f( g2 G: 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。
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5 k; C) }3 h6 h* c! JYou 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。. Q9 ` ^$ F( {! m; w2 e1 U; P
6 g% R" }2 n4 J1 b H0 P4 v9 iYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.; ^; _7 N1 k: g. }3 U1 g2 W
2 E( h# i" k$ P0 N你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。9 D. g: a8 D& s& h5 P' ^3 p) Y
7 H( g! {: J, S. s. }$ UHaving 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。9 R% ^, e* b0 Z2 u
; @: b+ ^# A& g4 A2 L( NFor 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. "( _. p% S- t8 I; f
+ d- l5 V/ s" \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。2 ^% ^0 Y! [7 s7 g `' {
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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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2 N' e8 R- g" u( P; B- y“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。9 d9 z% i3 |" }
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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”。5 f" B& U' A) h; ^
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