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生命就是小甜饼：* r* N9 I( J: A# K
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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: Q9 w# y' {+ s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”。/ C8 _1 p5 {# R2 d
; S0 T# j& g- WIf 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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7 [4 w; b/ e$ L" cSome 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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8 X, a( d' \. N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。( A, X3 r& |' e+ Y( ^; m) i) a9 [
: E' T% h: v# ?+ n2 ZA 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.( C" _3 ~- A/ q) O; H+ H
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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。+ i5 }+ H0 J& z- A+ k
, c& `0 q% k" h HWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.* x+ ~" c& r3 X0 v/ L5 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。7 Z+ U% z% k3 g1 h
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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.9 D4 B8 ~: m3 `! _( r! p" Q
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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。
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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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@7 O" V4 d5 g3 l4 \1 {- t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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( n" F) ^, @$ M# o6 D: Y( w4 ?8 [/ 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. 8 x ]* ~0 l- X: a
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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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. \" X1 v; b0 Q8 y8 J- x; sYou 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。7 A% N+ S) T' w g y/ I
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.. T- W% w" T% W1 K9 b
& a7 R; B* u( p! ^+ e1 r0 O: U8 _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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+ a2 A$ w3 ~7 f* D% e! WFor 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. "$ e7 @9 |* O" k& W& V( [8 I2 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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6 w( _& k" k0 s7 fTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.5 j- C6 j- y) G1 z; d
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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。 w5 K5 e! o+ G0 u# P4 c% w
$ B4 Q( q' \6 m+ ~6 vLife. 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”。
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