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生命就是小甜饼：, G9 X! q+ B8 e8 O6 @4 w; f
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.+ w+ n( l) P: F& L: J U* Z
2 E$ S0 w/ N: |; N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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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。3 `, n# E+ `! _" b
" O) m# k7 \# N( b5 U {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.& F0 L- \! L% G3 t# a; `! ]
: L$ o5 r8 h+ C7 \; |, _* O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.8 G# n i) J% H8 p% @7 F& Z( u1 v
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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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8 M- f8 x, H+ I5 f) U: g8 w3 h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。' S' }* c5 \/ b, V6 S$ C* N
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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.
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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。% l8 Y1 {* B/ b3 T; R
) S- i8 M; z3 q" \6 b, o1 E2 L0 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.- S' v1 z7 L7 t3 J
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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。. @4 w$ N. {) ]" S1 \5 ?( T
6 x. e+ s1 b2 B I! ~+ l2 u* 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. & E M) C" A0 a$ P* t! j: p
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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.: w# e) @, U! H# O
1 I6 c8 F- J; u. M3 q6 Z你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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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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8 m0 T. j4 u I5 FFor 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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) U' e& ?" |" l" o" d6 s) j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。0 {' c7 u3 M, ^9 v6 J# B
$ U; H4 N% C" i Q6 u7 f7 A( X# VTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.0 w+ v4 [* C8 X
4 A& Z+ X4 F2 b2 p+ v“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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+ c2 e! W% g' n3 F: 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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