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生命就是小甜饼：( Z5 \8 r" w" q$ U e/ T
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.4 V0 l6 N, o. q) ?! p! _$ q
, S: B2 F* q4 D' X& G3 {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.
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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。5 P: g6 J6 O* T. V
; @4 a2 S: T9 f3 R0 Z& z' W# ~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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% z( U% N6 {: z( w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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" e1 [! P0 I6 P7 A/ V8 A" e5 W, JA 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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* g6 x K2 F4 v1 A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。% h9 s q4 t- l; w3 j
% S* M9 X m Z- ~; @. f3 s" w [When 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。; ]- X: o5 C& R4 ~: @* N+ V" _2 |
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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.4 ^( S) q. f/ Y
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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。0 A5 V2 e9 D( [* K; G4 b
% @1 k9 Z( I6 H* G8 G, CThe 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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) N* k- J; p" s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。* d9 T2 N9 B1 {6 N
! @2 X& P1 N$ X( a- ^! {5 mYou 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. $ v9 Q F( {2 j" Y( k/ s
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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。9 h% H: l0 p6 }# r% k
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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。0 r" q# }, b, u
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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# F2 ~ n' H& g# N) g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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: G. |! A' _0 x+ B* JFor 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. "( Q$ e' D% g: b, A
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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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“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。) W! J+ N- ~ P4 S0 I8 }; D. E" R
. H/ h9 u/ k4 b# sLife. 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”。5 m$ L8 z1 p9 N
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