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生命就是小甜饼：+ a8 Q+ A e8 ]) { V$ S: T
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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0 L9 |* o4 p" y+ L0 o5 d4 K6 }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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2 Q% N7 @2 X$ c; Z& V9 [2 z8 PIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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9 k9 r3 G8 r0 h+ S2 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。9 s$ t7 B) t) z8 W5 @% {& g) X1 Z
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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.
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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。0 r9 }2 i2 x9 [# b7 C
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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.' Z7 N% t0 y0 ]
( K* K. t4 H b, T: q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.0 K& a+ k# W8 g/ u. b4 e# a6 a# |
/ F7 D- N2 w$ s$ V; v( |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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) w9 b5 A% o) F7 g; Q" o: DBut 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.+ c) N) D. s$ L/ ]. d' A7 V* {
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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。8 w* y5 `! D) C3 S9 I! n8 R* x5 K5 n
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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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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。0 a( M1 \6 v( ]
! m0 N; \3 Y( UYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.. U/ O) N0 U- j1 b3 O1 Q$ e, \! g, N
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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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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him./ D. P' n8 d( y. M
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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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) s% m6 }: }% u% j: @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. "1 p6 ]( w; Q7 F( c5 K6 I3 H
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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。7 E5 {$ l, x$ r) j& O
" W' v# g$ @2 N" i$ fTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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8 D5 k7 G' x" b3 e+ J8 x- A“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。; Y8 T) ^4 n# p
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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."; O2 E1 t8 t6 G3 l. A, F
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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”。8 Z& |6 [2 Y9 M1 e2 ]3 {) M+ V: k5 f
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