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: S1 m9 H x8 |生命就是小甜饼：
" ~* W! D0 `. EOne 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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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." ^1 U6 M6 Z9 k! x7 O8 r5 ?9 K
+ F2 k+ d6 t1 Q$ a( 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。 S8 M) [, O+ c I' L" M
0 T4 }, L1 S! H/ [: ^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.. N$ ?, r! }; z, q
# I4 j2 S. e" g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。) d2 S- W: D: B0 D n: P$ S
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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.% L4 w; x: o* _8 t- q
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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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- h: V# `6 {% O& Q+ }1 `, jWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy." w+ U+ p' ?8 Z) e: h8 R5 ]3 o4 L) O' ]
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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。( T0 d5 a; D2 ? W2 F8 z
) u G' X4 R+ i6 U4 `! s4 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., y" R; {+ H# V" @2 v0 J' E6 \
6 L, e5 @0 H0 y6 W+ c0 t2 M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.
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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。
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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。) l8 B: G) g M. m$ ~: S8 N5 [0 H, y
: R: d; k! B8 E, O) TYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。# A# E7 ~6 \. y8 D& s
/ X* Z! Y, T+ B+ ?- mHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him." T2 u! B+ _$ S& W6 c0 J4 w
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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。2 ? r+ L- R( R3 a: G: V
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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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4 q7 U B B; ~" }0 I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。0 t! w5 h& S, s9 J% 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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* W3 E: G" x# G, Q! J“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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% F% Y# U5 z& K2 f' sLife. 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."2 I! `7 b' x6 k
7 z0 t1 O- s' ]; w0 ~3 G5 c1 ^1 J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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