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生命就是小甜饼：
) X1 h: w {9 K5 I- K% yOne 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.. h- T$ D5 e% d' V8 T: x
* ]" n6 p9 }( a4 H; D7 J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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1 _2 ^: \+ Z6 X* g& ]+ ?; mIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.* k. b" |) \3 g1 @9 h8 N; @8 S
) o9 ~; x1 ?; ~; B8 ^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.3 D; e( v( h% M2 S1 Z3 A
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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。% a' \ [% C6 h# L6 }' e
% n$ q) I: q3 a% x& x' c3 |4 ]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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; G; E, V$ K3 H. @When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.' W8 _3 Z1 C& {% [
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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。% ~2 p& d) ]& L0 X+ m; a1 P) s O, P
- m/ l" A+ i3 G+ Q. {4 aBut 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. A8 Z5 p m' l4 u5 `' k/ R
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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.0 V: u3 c* I2 r6 b# S a
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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 l! O0 O; n: ^* E/ }' o6 z% y0 X
8 O( I3 R9 o+ N4 l E3 nYou 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. : w' ~6 H6 ^9 Q( C3 r: T: g
& \7 Z# b/ x: B( r2 c) V c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。+ o3 G4 ?: {. r
8 k9 [; t+ L* ^# }; T( }You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.! {6 b* S/ v, A( g \
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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.
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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。% ^! s; w8 t9 V
% V0 E1 u1 U. T9 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. "3 K0 e4 j; G3 p4 i- e. u
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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。5 R# Y" r# I' O1 v- E' w9 m8 n( e
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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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- o3 C0 ~- m5 i; M/ A0 A- B( H n- @4 T1 D“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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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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8 g2 t: i$ ]( B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”。6 S; X e0 @' o: U s1 q P
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