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生命就是小甜饼：
6 q9 _. c* h: H* ]& W+ u( iOne 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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+ R/ a5 m: L. Y; v% v h+ \$ a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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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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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。+ ^/ c& K$ N9 [/ x
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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.
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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。 F% i+ S& }* g" u( d3 D# M" c
u9 F9 W6 x( G( X: d- w: C9 J6 JA 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.! q. r( g i u" W8 }- L( p
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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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' R7 D( z" u) O3 Z% D0 H' XWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.) l& p; E8 Y! q5 z
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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。9 X4 o* _& c. ]' ~) S* |
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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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+ e; E& t4 K: N% t9 T0 ~! p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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( ^& ^' ~2 n. y2 jThe 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.+ \! }, Z; M( w
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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. ) s. J; U4 v, T; n" b
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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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+ e9 b2 I/ f4 R. v1 GYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.& d$ X0 M7 V/ c6 U$ I
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.. n: n3 w: o/ d6 j
2 [* P( e. E9 j; c8 u$ {0 x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. "8 U7 `# j0 r2 d' Q. @# e8 i0 H3 N
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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。* c5 H3 P* ^8 `' e# F& E
* T% v: X/ C5 F# `* ATwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.5 z! ]+ r% S9 X/ s7 `/ e; U
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( Q$ D2 n0 G) R6 CLife. 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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/ |' Z/ ?$ r5 v% Y6 m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”。
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