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生命就是小甜饼：
9 A+ Y) `8 L8 EOne 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”。2 E0 Y2 |: q" f1 a$ H
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.% ]( {' E' W5 S0 w" f4 V' U* K2 y
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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。( k7 V+ ?8 o3 u% p
/ d- p: Z. ?6 {0 E4 g/ z) a& C& WSome 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./ l# M9 d& X& i- G& L' V0 n
. h! q9 q3 q, A9 E1 l3 U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。1 H1 G r$ h, n0 P
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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./ C. l; _7 x" n1 C* }
6 o6 ?. Y# r6 h0 e( `; \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。, m5 c6 `2 z# z5 G
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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.) H2 M4 |7 g2 e3 j& W
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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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7 u) Y" H, d: n: L5 }. NBut 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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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。9 k( m$ q0 f7 s
: k3 E/ C. i5 I XThe 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." q$ v1 s+ j( L5 v
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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。
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2 w |' D- ]/ r/ L2 ZYou 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. - x4 n% u* h1 n( G5 X5 N
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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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# a, S: ~! ~0 kYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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& \/ ^% r$ z S. [- p0 x8 o你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。& e: s7 M0 s8 j0 o: s
& T# ^) |, w6 i3 B- y( B# V6 uHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.: F7 g" j3 z& p" E4 b1 a* z1 g/ j, j
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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。
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4 e$ ]5 T, V, q% M2 EFor 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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( X3 ]; ^( O$ k7 i; g. I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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* [$ M) x3 u, YTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.$ c3 R4 a2 r; X1 v
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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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+ T4 c& h; o# P8 i7 b( gLife. 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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