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生命就是小甜饼：) J+ h& a) c. A# e! Q
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.0 l: P6 ]9 x: C3 W# f: u; L) i, P7 Z# i
* ]7 C. k8 r X0 o! F; s1 `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”。4 k+ w* q' w/ g7 I) m* p
* q" u9 p. ]2 C# l8 F2 m" [If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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0 Q. W) n) h- Y- M# o' p8 t5 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.. y6 e# m) u' a( F( |- r: t
) j% `5 o8 |' J# [+ }+ R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.
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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。! A8 i8 l6 {' O
. Q# s% H8 W 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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5 | A" g7 R6 i/ @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。4 _* E! R# Y5 `8 H1 Y5 S
3 L1 G' ]7 p4 UBut 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.; \! n' I: Q6 m( \6 H( J9 L O
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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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6 `+ J# G9 V9 o1 P3 ~8 [% [8 v3 {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。! z8 g: E# j% {3 w1 c/ J
0 X+ t5 ]2 V3 D0 h3 L" i, 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.
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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。1 |$ @9 N; ^( i. X5 t
' O- ?3 ]: e% M4 O8 GYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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8 P4 j7 [- O: u; c0 K4 }3 |你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。3 ^* A2 ]6 z: Y o( \+ Y
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.( @6 S! S* I: p' a
5 `# n7 {) K9 u& l9 X7 _5 v# u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。 G3 H n4 w& Y- {- c w: K2 N
6 x- Q$ [4 Z' ` rFor 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. "( x0 X" w% c/ v* s
1 a. U3 R n+ Z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. H# U H+ G& }
: x5 |- K$ G; DTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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0 }2 |6 T s! z' U: H) n“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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! \8 j" L, E6 j% A7 U2 P9 j e3 eLife. 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.": H g$ h" H; N) a; A$ m8 ]( `
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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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