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生命就是小甜饼：
! B0 Y& x% i: D; LOne 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”。* H7 b1 y' \" e" j
* g4 V T3 _8 P# [5 x) FIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.# C; U, k' O/ U/ s% A, N# e
- O$ o1 ]0 s0 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。
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8 g$ o( ]. S# V* F( qSome 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 m2 A0 ^9 a5 m1 j- CA 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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5 h5 g8 x/ F( c# h! F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。1 [ W# n$ O4 x
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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.2 V: X" D: i' g" ]5 E' ^% f
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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。! |- P& H" n1 w* G
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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.
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7 h" b% H/ @+ g/ l; k( H; W; N: `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。. I( p6 q, h m+ V+ J( g1 m8 A$ h: f
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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。3 y. c- x. W. @* @, t8 G6 M/ F
! ~1 m( r: ^( q6 d3 l8 B; wYou 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. 6 Y% e* M3 w7 B9 D9 r
! ^$ z# c- O+ \9 R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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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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2 z& S; C% H% m4 q) y- M" L9 \3 UHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.; Y; \; h- X. Q- I( s8 N, I
+ X4 Q9 ~9 y) V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. "0 t/ U- a |) ~9 ] Y8 a- \
* h8 b; J8 O* W8 [# N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.3 }7 \6 D' s; d
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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。# k& `. m7 @3 _" Z2 ?7 g1 [
: n5 m2 t' r% a% J5 \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."3 F7 q4 C6 \3 _7 U1 B6 c
% O' s6 P: ^1 ^: 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 P/ y m3 O8 Z* L
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