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; S9 C/ o6 U& b% }生命就是小甜饼：$ j& ^8 R% O* ?) j+ `1 c
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.. Q4 K% V8 v3 \+ \+ Q
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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”。' E, ~; l. l1 Q7 a2 @
& P+ m7 {! E! K; L# EIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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' @1 E7 G* z* @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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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.+ e) Z* S3 P; \0 r' l
# Q$ j% ?& ~" z% f& 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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. b7 G/ ^/ Z1 ~ D0 {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.0 z8 y' b" ]2 f$ S
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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。7 O$ m6 { C: D5 J
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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.1 }6 I6 a5 R# n& m( m# h" I
6 x, \4 S. O$ r+ H; W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.7 D$ }! p! [, O1 [( v* F0 b
* i8 i8 i6 T/ P& ^( A8 y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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; ]5 w' M0 @* w+ h! F0 @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.' a4 P% a) \& p, F- V% p5 {
7 ~! q; s O. f- B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. , e5 {9 c0 h" F! l$ Q: L
' F- _2 y+ Q+ c* e$ C6 I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.
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/ i. a; c5 v0 L( {. L u, h5 b你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。- m2 O5 J4 U7 v7 P% `& \5 {7 [
8 [" Z+ }& X; N# X9 U) V8 x' h$ o; ]Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.. L5 s) m# X! {
3 A; u& m$ r% j1 u5 f9 a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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j) E- _7 g5 c7 q, YFor 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. "% L) i, Z' |* J0 l) I/ k `& l+ F
: Y( t) f4 l8 Q$ k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。, y" k+ p4 U: V
# K f1 N7 a. a2 zTwo 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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! b) V3 }2 Y9 _, q/ `" Q' i; 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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+ n% M( [5 v% _5 J2 ^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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