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2 j5 [( f/ M# U! |! T生命就是小甜饼：
! X! K. x; S8 A% Y! `0 FOne 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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# w* d) C) Q8 {2 l& T9 q! L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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2 u! I7 f3 e: l& ]If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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% {! Y" K) V7 p8 O( \9 ] b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。, G' G. z" F! ~
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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.+ o( C, y! m% A. i/ @
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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。7 l' b& M0 P; k
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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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4 o& s5 w+ E' Q/ M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.$ N( m! l9 Y) l" _2 a+ X% Z
O, s0 }, }. m7 b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。0 S( p7 |! @, t' p$ L# z
8 j% G+ n+ g: u* L' u, ~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.
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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.5 a0 A+ C4 L2 C- [0 f2 l3 k; w7 y# \4 u
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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. 2 d7 U8 t- j5 N2 a- F1 X
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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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6 r- y, z P5 b U! |' UYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it./ v5 G8 C! \3 c8 Q' I
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。9 w% R7 V# \" H" e- U
8 k7 k y- ]& b' KHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.: I+ o3 [) A* ~$ z) W2 h/ w/ L
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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。0 S( n n; L! U* Q4 u
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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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+ ?8 T' `( G" C( z% s% g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 v) h& g6 H; ~2 @5 H8 [$ c+ K8 ~
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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。. \6 N2 k; `8 y. [2 F" l& v( p0 ~
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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”。7 p B4 N3 A4 y" H% S2 L8 g
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