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生命就是小甜饼：
- [$ k" u9 f% pOne 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.) _$ U5 K* W% N
) m' n( Q! ?5 e8 q- C7 Y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”。* l& ^1 R# b. h6 q
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.0 a( x6 q( J- r% j9 h; R5 t4 m" L/ w) E
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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。% p! ]$ p( Z" L* C9 Z$ ?
o' d) q6 N5 t s1 T# d! BSome 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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3 f5 U X9 J. P! }- vA 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.0 ~- l( m2 s5 x( m v9 R
& h! ~; J% K2 {$ w5 P% T+ ]/ E% V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.
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2 t3 k2 n" E; K/ I. L! i P9 \( ^6 W( 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。
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- d2 \# N. C7 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.6 c, N7 z- m" p* ^" C9 P. d2 |9 _; h3 A
& W5 U' t I' s- r: I/ y0 ^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。4 r/ g$ R& v% w" H4 L/ \( v
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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。, v% X. r& E2 u4 u
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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。
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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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9 T! g9 \2 l+ F9 F) q' H I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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2 R/ m! a5 D- L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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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. "
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5 o& p7 w: l- N& F/ W" C$ H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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L4 E1 n$ g& F, l' `“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。/ X, l# r: t7 A) |" z3 C
3 K9 X. E/ M2 a$ \. LLife. 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."' h5 m1 v5 K7 b/ w
2 z, c3 j4 V1 X, p, q ~ M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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