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. Y9 t# u0 @$ a. I1 x4 W% s5 h- i生命就是小甜饼：; T8 y- c. L! P3 k' Y
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”。8 w( A% n, D- p0 U# t2 g
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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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, V9 |8 [. e) y5 q0 ~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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% Q G$ o3 C9 i- z6 b. j+ V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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" W) X7 H( x$ T; ~' C' ]. FA 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 ]- Q, {9 I' B
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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。3 K( Q" G' b" w- x
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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 O8 }) v% Z' |0 W5 X" O
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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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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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( _$ q' C. b t( V3 @( W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。5 P( H# A% U* H! p
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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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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。; o& B6 }8 T3 E, Y! j! Y) z
2 W$ C1 i# H8 XYou 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. 8 p1 l0 V( R m" H3 s2 b
# b7 |% @2 N! p& Y' ~* r, }$ T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。) ^( M9 a, I$ c- N) r8 ~8 }0 j2 M: G
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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.& j2 U5 v2 E& q1 I
- p [( e# {( \! ^0 Z你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。& d) l# I' b5 [: o& y- O
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.7 V4 N6 F' k& _9 i/ q v
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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。5 }( ]4 b. V- T& [6 x- R
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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. "
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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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0 a \# g/ p0 @4 Q2 A) y2 G3 ^5 mTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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2 y# @( |" ?. |" u4 f3 z8 e1 G“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。+ {. S; A% r$ |5 |5 V K: y" W- w
5 N ?, i q) J. o* ` _8 iLife. 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."# _: C( N& c8 i" }+ Z, G
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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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