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生命就是小甜饼：4 H3 Q$ t1 z( N- e
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.8 x% c. i8 |- e/ b2 p
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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”。
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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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1 m5 h( N' ~0 g0 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。
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5 f1 ~& t2 K8 A1 j" iSome 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。
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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。
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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.: T7 A! F6 o0 A* \' h% B: n
5 ~/ S3 `. o# X" z' ^6 n6 m+ s3 F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。 A* P( V+ n' A- {
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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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. h; a8 I# g3 m3 Q P* L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 \$ \7 r- I! P$ l1 _# dThe 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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; c1 Z* U0 {( G1 l3 \3 N3 @" E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。) a) J. s/ R/ ?0 i8 W
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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. 0 m+ T$ _! X0 A4 A! g# q2 A% f. W6 B! c7 D. @
# Q7 h$ J+ o. o8 [- }9 b7 V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 J0 V+ c, w/ |5 W
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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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5 B9 l4 z, O1 u- U' {; \- O! K你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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; x7 s' r+ B0 y7 W- M' H/ DHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.; ]* O# h, h/ W9 M. v5 `
* `$ t) H- X* B$ o/ ]. k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。) o% _: t2 @! T: ~: I3 ?& F
3 |* l) M+ D5 j+ N1 n0 v' o/ A2 j, b( l! ZFor 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. "; L0 S: v& N# R' ?* K) ]5 }
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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。& L" f1 J) L1 {' a% i2 V
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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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“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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% v$ M, f L, z) @. Z3 `0 ]: c5 cLife. 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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