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生命就是小甜饼：
# n' z o$ O' a& D2 tOne 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 ~( x( P' z: `) B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”。. n# F* d1 G7 y, G1 E) a
- M: f- U ` dIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing., m$ |' f" X. h
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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。. W6 D% s' J6 ~6 A: a
/ ?" Y. h$ M/ s# C; \4 rSome 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+ M. G e4 u* b4 L/ ~
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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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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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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.
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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.4 L( M/ `( Z7 ^: E j E: }& q1 U
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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.( B6 V# H: j1 q$ S G6 b; ?
* w( x4 y1 E( S* r _: u6 o r1 t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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' A+ J! B& \2 k- z0 J4 _4 x1 QYou 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 L7 v7 K$ ]* m3 r: J2 ]
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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。( P6 P1 a! x/ {. p- Y0 }
9 |4 t9 D; Z% k( ~8 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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) @5 G9 M% y9 N2 t1 W) o你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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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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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. " E3 {# k, w. T
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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。/ e5 B) ^1 c/ U5 p3 g
) f4 r( J$ u; N+ iTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important./ ^$ u1 C; z% b' }, I9 G; Z, P
8 }7 }2 |4 ]7 U( f& Y m( R. R/ c+ p. ^“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。$ T5 G, J* p$ k4 N
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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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; R3 g% i3 { z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”。) j" D4 ?/ p9 d7 M' d$ Q1 ~
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