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生命就是小甜饼：, c2 m6 Y' k5 c$ i
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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" V* ~$ e. `4 y+ w0 G$ I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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" _4 B n, M4 c, eIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing., j, t- F9 S1 n& n; y
, g; j% K5 m! E3 C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。! Z! @6 z. 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.$ w5 L0 t! _6 ~4 l
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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。" R% V6 ]! ?! J& ? R3 [) a
' V; c; U% p: t0 xA 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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$ l4 S+ ?, H' |2 L- }0 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。" t: _- r* z, Q2 ^+ R, ^
1 K: ^; s+ a$ d) N; d' V! QWhen 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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: b9 `" |: v( y6 F) T2 ]3 {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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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。
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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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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.
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2 N m9 Y6 G4 t7 R( v$ H$ ]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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' P8 @6 a# p$ J) M3 e# g J' BYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.; L1 d2 K" o* a; p- P& q
3 a& L' ~: m) z, P# B( ~7 h你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。. h Z1 b1 |' U& \8 I
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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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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. ": }; a% c" J. n4 B+ m2 q7 D
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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。
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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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4 H2 U; ~2 P+ R“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。8 C- b9 l1 @: u
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Life. 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."8 Z( t+ L+ S+ S$ L/ i0 E
$ g& j, T1 j- z4 r+ g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”。4 L3 ?8 z: u& G' e! \$ s0 S/ H, w3 J
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