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生命就是小甜饼：( H9 B8 F) a" l& ~
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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# C+ S/ G3 |% M0 ^/ d N4 s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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; q9 q: n- @- l7 lIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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1 @2 V' X" Z/ O9 q' f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.0 ?; O) |( l$ {0 D5 Y. o
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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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& b" H9 L8 l/ x2 \" z+ ZA 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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/ H2 t l, \& M( E$ S* a2 x; ~* e0 G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.: Z3 T6 T6 V$ |8 m! _0 |) J
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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。) G" j8 F+ L- I, Y
?1 P9 F# M2 {5 W8 oBut 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。1 `" R. I2 d' ` j
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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.0 x/ v2 R. b& H( Y
7 b4 }; D" d* A) Z+ ~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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6 ]8 i5 y3 w8 `! XYou 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. 8 ]. Y7 `$ Z8 v% A3 L- Z
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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。% ~* `4 f% f1 [9 a/ _
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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 b8 O5 M: p6 b# T5 x你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。2 m2 o; @$ n+ T6 V) S1 z" s
0 M7 M/ u" ]! |/ s- mHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.& I& \; U( O* \2 R2 C+ o' B
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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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6 f1 e& M8 w. gFor 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. "
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- y" Q5 L1 Q8 D0 ?. q" \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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7 w3 I2 D% h6 D$ ^" u" V$ ]6 Z“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。& q, z+ y9 b/ I | E' j) s
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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."
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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”。5 h* U: C$ Y* u1 C l
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