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生命就是小甜饼：
/ c8 \& y; G0 F3 H MOne 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.) q7 B, M. R) j# M$ }& M
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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”。9 A* H9 \2 f, h$ X6 Z7 b Q) R
; S! l; C8 K0 qIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.- w, v; C) R# }$ P& i
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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 u: |8 N& s% ?
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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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' t% K8 n/ f4 ? W' f, u6 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。: L7 X4 ^8 D: {5 r
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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.. _" x( C! @) W* P9 s
' Z; D1 m$ A* F( J5 Z. g! E7 e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.) `) n4 }) D; x( O( N( T, @/ {. @
1 s5 w% n* e y8 w# f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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; J7 v' l& x3 l# B% D2 jBut 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.3 g5 A2 `0 J8 {" Q9 e9 U/ E/ Q, ^+ T
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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。0 \( B- B( D- ?8 x
3 a ?7 n" P2 j+ [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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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。9 p, P4 k) V9 Q/ H8 M8 @- L" e
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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. 1 {7 L2 f Q" b) u
2 c5 ^1 ]' F$ S9 _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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' K8 ?$ D. n( u: l% W8 LYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it." l7 Z9 F. c# \$ a0 Y* H
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。& ^5 `+ O4 ], i6 G1 Y
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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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( D4 @1 v6 i9 h+ s O7 x- O! B+ D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。6 }( L6 ?0 ]# O$ n" R4 s9 {# s/ l
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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. ": k: O; D/ j- T% D5 e8 `
: U/ \7 E' ], f5 i' r4 T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。) s Z2 k. H8 K
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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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$ ~1 Y% I& l8 Z# }9 H$ w( 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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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."% E( m2 i( s3 A; F$ _, `
, r: c0 Z! O! Y6 c2 Z) f5 v; E3 K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”。7 Q4 B+ L2 _# J- i3 T. G
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