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0 `5 O6 g& w, _生命就是小甜饼：
& y, C: S3 Y0 w4 P% qOne 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., A3 F( Z! |$ ?% `
. a9 m4 }! {3 s* |2 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”。0 ]/ @) v/ _. O) c, ?
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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。( Z) n7 i' }, a& ?/ M0 p
) d5 ~4 ?0 O# t" M3 {4 |" Q6 s% ^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。
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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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8 Z5 Z& Y/ T5 E7 v" Q# N6 a# u/ n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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! u8 h, z$ d0 {( _9 k7 A+ VWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy., y/ K* E' M- M1 |: ]
) C1 u6 S) [6 l# r' j8 f3 q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。6 l- g" }6 \2 L$ F8 W P5 x
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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 {1 N. }9 m I1 F5 @
" M! Y, _! M8 T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。- c; D4 a$ \. z z8 o- b1 c
8 f1 `7 r; T6 l( UThe 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。
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7 j+ b% i4 K% z# X, B7 [& {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.
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: b& {& }$ h! c0 z2 d; e8 A6 Y4 f/ }2 k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。5 s2 o2 A* G. r( _. K0 g+ J5 k: S
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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.$ q& z6 {$ O: X
+ k( I! \9 ]9 X+ ^# v你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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! j9 k/ x, m- D3 i" N( lHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.% T& A! [. \. O$ }% N, s1 Z8 J
, ]5 H: a9 H9 h* R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。+ W0 u! t# W9 s f
& S4 {/ S! V- S3 i+ n1 fFor 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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" `9 b, p0 {* A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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) w* {1 q- ?, O8 x5 v" [) a9 B6 oTwo 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。
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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”。
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