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7 v+ n+ \6 w/ Z) k; B7 N& o# ^生命就是小甜饼：/ j; K( J8 U; F+ i- S S: F. h* e# o
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.
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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”。! I1 {2 A, |0 E% }
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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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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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& b: ?% \7 @$ W/ {1 N5 j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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% q; w4 Q7 v/ u& N" O( F3 rA 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.: Y/ I) `+ q) `
' R6 I' L! I# [* l+ z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.+ ^& d# n: M" U- ~; a7 w- v2 Z
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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。. k" [! L# a: g' _* m1 g+ i
7 E4 l3 S2 v3 h- o4 [+ X* zBut 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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1 q* W9 }# L( a- S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。! y/ F6 l1 O: S c
9 V/ l8 ~, D4 n8 f% j# 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.* w) [8 d0 L+ K4 ^7 I
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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。- S+ G8 ]$ R4 a
3 d: {' B6 C1 ^. q/ sYou 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。' X+ o7 c: x- d) r9 @" E( _- f
1 Q& Y; `5 g# A+ E: I9 [You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.: d9 H% U, [* T' k$ s
J) ]) `; {. N* P3 F你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。4 }2 ]# k2 ?- l% p9 z
L& S* D7 j! X( ]+ k7 Y1 n0 nHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. Z6 K, [ s/ p
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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。
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4 |* b) \6 _/ M( V( [. E1 yFor 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. "/ U! g% R: q1 b5 b K J
. H: I9 e7 U- x# p# c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。
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2 d7 B9 ]. N, `5 F, C8 S2 {Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.. I7 C/ w$ v2 p/ }
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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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, V6 x- V) o) h KLife. 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”。& r9 d/ _! V4 m: `4 C0 ~! I
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