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生命就是小甜饼：, O, d% j- O) I' n1 B
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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# @! M% ?) c2 x& ^6 f t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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$ n3 b; x8 f4 Y8 fIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.6 C5 `% T3 [* w% x# B7 n. B& j
; E# g: {+ H5 J$ J. I6 D/ X$ L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。: `0 f+ u, A$ I2 E# s3 C5 f
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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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" W* C y8 ~; q! d4 {6 _3 V+ 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。
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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.# [' ^* i0 m0 J, ]7 \7 b! ~
7 V9 _. |( R1 P% J. V( w+ k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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3 s) y0 ^7 r1 `" p% y/ V& p/ }- ^4 k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。! n) @/ E9 K- V, _ ~6 W
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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 g" B. C) R, W$ p" N
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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., d- ?/ Q5 g: j: S3 U
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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。6 a R4 o4 z3 K
0 ?( S' g% w1 ]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. + j+ J1 O% p, f6 z& ?' o% O
3 ^( I+ u2 i* m8 X3 }# X* [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。6 E( m& g7 c$ h* I$ Y# i
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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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. G% B1 w7 G& |+ g# }2 H$ _5 y; H你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。9 ]2 N( w" Z% o% n) e
9 @) A. \( w' t( UHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.4 f! R2 \" E4 M
. K) |* g- U% k% ?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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For 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. "- I9 y; r) `) T' t, {
4 I5 h6 E/ ^( H; y, \2 p- }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。- w7 l X; _- I1 F( X" x
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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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9 \4 l4 c# Z$ R: b) f8 W“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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$ N/ S# B& C8 a2 o4 c/ ELife. 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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9 M+ ]# }" J3 B1 ]& Z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”。: o' m c! }9 R" @. e/ U
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