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生命就是小甜饼：+ o8 A0 x$ R9 R6 A
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.% j7 ?( a( f% s( ~9 t; I
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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.) @$ U6 s% R8 u5 ?
$ s0 A y1 k( Y' u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。; ^0 J4 ?( k* J9 B
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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.0 j' q y8 a9 |2 s3 e( ~4 n
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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。+ h) }# o) ~- I
" {9 Q5 N. w8 @5 h) }' Q7 BWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.' b' Y; f, x5 c
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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。8 |% W5 W; \* A( M3 |& x+ i
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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.
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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。% z6 r/ Z8 R u; i ]
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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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, h" n: ~( x2 U) n4 {2 i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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. s; g1 G7 K& R, U: L4 {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。
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+ R' l5 w( T8 Y6 ]2 bYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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) k4 r8 Y! Q$ _% n3 j& S6 R2 S你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。* Q' L) s4 h5 a* H; v0 H
* o+ O- G; L( |) L/ {, m6 qHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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2 Y6 J7 e2 f# I; v/ e. \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。" K' K. C. h$ h: G
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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. "( ?+ `3 e/ Y2 C6 M8 G" r
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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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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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|; r, d4 n7 ]3 D6 _& q“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。4 i2 q' F) x, e) r, D- V2 ?9 O
% t4 Y& }( R( E v: g \! A: ]! qLife. 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”。" r* V( }7 P; T6 Y7 [
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