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6 x& l, f/ Q0 W& _. j1 N生命就是小甜饼：" D5 s6 `3 m8 i' j& Z9 t& E$ O
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 P- a$ X# c8 \2 I% Z- J# u+ y
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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”。8 H x m1 E) U; @
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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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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。; ]8 o3 G3 B) Q
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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.' ~% m @; g; ~5 g- m
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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。# E. i2 E- \' S" p v
1 F6 O! g8 |- _0 \' E# ^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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6 M7 F) s! _" B/ ~3 f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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9 l/ l, j0 Q$ j; P# Q; w2 i8 P: bWhen 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。5 S/ _: _* h9 k3 e7 {
+ v/ E3 k; T* M+ K7 M3 M" 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., J" V9 A5 N9 V5 a. p& |; D2 y
7 q+ }* k a5 m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 X3 W3 Y- z6 y& Z! f# J+ Y
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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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/ |7 N/ ?9 r4 c2 b4 J7 XYou 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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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% O0 s( T- e% q) CYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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* P( a# o9 _% r2 v% F你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。8 p1 D! X, h" M' D% _6 Q
- j1 X0 y* _. s6 [" q4 IHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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* z- k% l/ _$ J Q- p! ^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。( X7 Q7 P8 l9 ^# ?- M1 k9 d
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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. "5 K7 V! V2 ]5 T5 [, S( Y
0 q. F7 ~1 N$ l% n: h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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: I& v; y8 a/ BTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.+ P1 X! v5 D5 X$ | G) n7 A* k- H) Z) `
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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。5 h4 J9 t3 l( }5 [& p
! U. Z" \( W' L, N6 G! k0 j- DLife. 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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