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! ~6 K4 s8 a, }" a, }% C+ p2 e生命就是小甜饼：3 x$ g+ l( i% N+ f+ g) W; 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.7 ~0 L/ x" 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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, G- e Q; ~: n! H2 {5 y3 w( rIf 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。8 ] \! c" z/ t% T* {
) Y& h) X8 ]' f1 ^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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; m; C" e' a8 j8 g, t9 a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 [3 `3 a1 r, `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.
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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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/ A+ E5 U6 S$ IWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.
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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。1 ]& N N1 o9 u" p3 f$ O
+ F9 K# D4 @; ]+ 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.7 |5 C" y' a( k
4 t+ a- m, |; ~( X+ s/ E" _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。3 r" }: s* q& m# x& D/ b0 X" B
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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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T/ T/ R& D4 ]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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, f ?0 U$ l6 s2 \; d& ZYou 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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! ^% O* _1 A. x$ W/ }6 p% S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。! @& z6 d; q. g8 ~ Y& J u9 y
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You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。" f% S' F! L' X; {/ x2 a: P
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.+ [' E% o1 \- j0 z1 g; K0 [
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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。) j& p. Q: l* G5 v3 A& ? x5 y; Z6 I
, b3 Q& O/ t# b' fFor 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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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。/ M# L$ y$ g5 n& [! D. [
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important., U8 @* Z# ^1 b) h
+ O( }) L0 M, J! x @; d9 z/ A“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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5 g# ^' v- }6 m* g# g! S" FLife. 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.") H# \% O* p/ X1 z$ J
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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”。
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