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2 Q. X9 T0 Z/ H' E) d+ k ]生命就是小甜饼：
* l6 {- q$ g3 W- h7 b) UOne 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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1 C! y' \" U6 Q) u5 n+ _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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' |6 o$ b7 w+ |2 gIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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8 m) @# _: ~0 i, g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.7 a; ?# a# p5 g% w4 r g
: Y8 V y3 R# B% y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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9 d5 V1 z: m/ {. s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。8 c* i7 K9 G( K/ L0 j
0 G$ ^& K" g' B: u# ^3 R0 ~2 ~9 hWhen 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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( R6 a: [- P! e" d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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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." p4 x8 c! O; b. L+ [
" k! o U+ W9 I: ^5 |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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S, x$ k O4 \! n* H9 C& CThe 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。9 C2 N5 P) A3 K+ l
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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. * [; Y; N2 \7 `, J" y
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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。% L3 T6 q' q8 P5 r% _/ ]
% _1 ? U& ~& G+ n- i" 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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6 q6 Z9 B% I& [" x' X+ W. Y1 m. [你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。5 Y6 l6 g, x# V3 r8 y
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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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& n5 J+ K) e2 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。
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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. "; V: l' ^/ y* l/ v# Z( Y
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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。) q7 Z6 s. p+ {7 n2 C; H8 B3 k7 Q
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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。+ x+ H2 N0 q7 B+ `, G( W
. ?0 d- \* y/ ^2 N% C1 C/ 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."$ C! I; L9 f* H4 |+ ?
4 A, \0 ?3 Y: ~- Z! L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”。/ t1 m- A. l& a# |3 M1 A
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