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7 O) d" H- r" x2 |+ N, N生命就是小甜饼：' M% t4 N" ^. e! F) {9 S3 L! o+ @. A
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.' ?: Z9 S7 \5 C* S- i- F K
3 a6 P7 Z* ]: b1 f& U0 Q) {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.( f A# b- ]# e6 Z
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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。" m3 i5 \4 A3 k) K, }/ N
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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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+ R% g3 {! U1 h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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7 [( w, |+ T$ c. b. G# d" Y$ y6 {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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/ ]5 r% c3 U; h! a) A7 Z6 Y( d7 o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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$ k" R! K; j1 p+ c9 o; {& ~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。# L+ H2 }5 f+ j, x0 n
D: c) T- K f! s- I, pBut 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.3 h0 |# W6 W. D) b5 O
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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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+ t( P9 T u' D6 R* O- ]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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9 i. r* d* N3 D+ u. T v& dYou 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. * d/ u, E: o" `+ z, v2 o( y
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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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You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.. U" l1 Q' e! L
% S: e( F- {. y, Z你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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7 G. o6 a8 a9 m9 M; q' EHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.2 N: ]6 `& w* u( P6 I$ F
2 {0 l1 l R& r6 j) V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。( R; O) q; f/ Q: |+ f
2 _, r" B/ X/ N+ F% 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. "
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' y/ J+ K W- L3 h0 m! Q; Q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。6 T N/ M. n/ Q$ W
" M# q& j* Y2 R; n' A1 vTwo 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。
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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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1 m: b& M" f2 G0 W$ ^* H4 P, k% p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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