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生命就是小甜饼：$ d" K5 P% y7 c# m# X8 i$ E: l7 i
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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2 x g. s/ h) @, I3 z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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) b% w% Z' ?6 q4 u( D3 NIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.) U: s& l+ [: ^" X9 d) j
. n* k4 C# t' r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。1 z+ C/ t& X9 b9 I$ h% k- q
) {% L$ f( N, z# x' ]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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6 g @- L* Q0 t* w; N9 k1 f F9 c c% s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.
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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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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。/ j- x: z" J+ T/ O( N
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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.. b7 E- V7 {+ P8 s
, f8 B% i t+ ?# E& F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. y9 f6 i* B# V1 Q& r
/ j: m+ W, R, j6 [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。5 X) ~, P( N: l/ Q! m I9 h
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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. / E) B% C G! x; M8 R7 s2 d
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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。3 x! A" o% O3 b
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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.( z* f$ e/ ^% H) a
- u6 A0 b1 A0 X1 X2 V; }你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。9 M! } ?! @9 W# M$ X3 z s
% @1 C/ [, k1 F& T1 ]9 `Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.% \ j$ d+ f% z1 u2 M
r- _/ \$ C4 M" ^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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- o4 |/ B; b" L; {! LFor 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. "- |* z9 H5 o5 I
+ s1 |6 T4 g# E/ n7 h* m$ `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。1 {; n6 }8 t/ i$ t! x, P
* Y. ?, Z% x T! A8 a n1 N1 }$ A+ ~" DTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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[; e* X3 C" ~# y7 J“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。7 ?, Y2 f' ~$ A3 {+ W8 U3 S' V
, I0 ] w5 r8 _% ^% a E/ G7 }Life. 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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: C" q6 Y: q) k8 z2 J. l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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