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生命就是小甜饼：3 E5 z2 Y) H, V$ h' s; ^' c- Q: |6 l
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.7 |& \/ D: O& h. b
7 O$ }8 x- G, C7 z S8 \ Y; b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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2 G9 }% H2 C0 @7 L3 H& N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。
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7 W6 T& i& ?+ p. G- e5 w2 KSome 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.- ?* b/ A6 c, t- |
* h2 ?8 T1 u# c6 G0 m+ T. D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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/ F. c' K) r" U/ g4 _$ bA 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.- P1 d* B9 z! ~7 a
; C5 }8 l0 h! 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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# e) `9 }0 t% T4 t1 DWhen 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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- R" }) z6 X: `- z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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2 q2 D" @* w% D1 [& L/ lBut 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. ]' S+ w8 s2 f5 |, o6 F+ d; |5 C
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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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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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" J5 t' C4 G" X) ~/ v: CYou 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.
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# s! ^& H3 a8 d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.5 i3 Y6 B6 K( K0 Q( d- A& }
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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2 i1 y# A# [8 t0 W2 _9 Y0 ]Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.3 b* E" K# F4 N4 H& D
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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。" E3 K. D' t$ x8 l$ B3 C
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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. "
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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。" q3 [4 _- ]: p) }. ^7 V
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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。
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; {: \) K. w! x, \, s" }/ mLife. 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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& B0 c0 G, \! v0 ]9 V) _5 O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”。, L" N u" B5 {: K
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