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生命就是小甜饼：
1 Z/ `% S- _% [7 t, _, 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”。2 E4 |1 e. ?/ c# S& w3 R ]
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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( `9 x4 q/ [ s( j- m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。 ~- V5 O/ ^6 ?3 P" V
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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.0 d& @' b6 p3 h: t% E2 B: n1 a
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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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( E4 }) R/ ?0 ~; j4 E4 C0 eA 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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8 X9 Z! C& D& F, ~7 N" I0 m+ R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。4 |9 L# R; @9 I2 @
6 |. V5 Z" _/ gWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.9 {& P9 V5 e8 c& ]/ w
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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。
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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.9 q. @1 w3 J' G* l
! ^; |& k4 l! a2 X$ i4 R6 g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。 b4 t" q- I0 ^2 p Y L" ?
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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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2 G# e O8 x+ H9 s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。0 _4 m+ Y6 D) 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. ) Q9 M% Y9 s6 v- ^, v
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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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$ M* [3 @( m3 V7 r3 j! h/ sYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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4 J9 \% m- w3 @+ G你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。0 |% ~7 U! d3 J3 ]9 l3 h6 Y
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.1 E1 T* D, F' q8 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。& H y9 D- ^6 g7 C! o6 t! I
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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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. W! A$ R- m/ m% O) C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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5 G5 ]* E) s+ A P; E, ATwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.( }2 d2 q" Q8 `8 L
/ F {- c! ~) |“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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+ c/ L" B# m1 \+ ` `4 FLife. 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."! i+ y" ^/ k% M/ `0 G
7 q( d/ ?) K0 I; K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”。% H9 s, d9 Q n% [0 y# A$ S o+ g
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