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生命就是小甜饼：
: x' P, q, D a# I9 SOne 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.4 w1 m# E |# g) f0 ]
* [& s- o7 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”。
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing., v( @# T2 t& D: \( G0 Q
: }6 G3 ?7 ~2 X& h r% A' b5 i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。2 i2 |0 `" H; b3 i/ K- _
! T- z/ n# g5 ^$ ~* O" WSome 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.3 T; m/ _/ M) P3 b$ x t
; H' j! b) f% `' d% o/ f0 U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。' A5 e$ n: |! u
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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。( c; P: M( I1 z; k' ~& X8 c' L. V
0 u. n Q) ^4 y$ JWhen 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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) ?% S8 Y$ f4 d2 b$ r* ]" OBut 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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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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0 Y6 n9 Z( Z/ Y" q- oThe 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。2 E0 [- Z2 u* N1 J
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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. . D4 I1 O" p1 e; p
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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。; h; u+ M. @9 n; }# |, ^7 j
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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.# _. u; R2 C) D, d* q
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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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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。! }7 F7 q* t- j) p, [9 H: w
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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. ") o9 }, R' o, `( Y5 @7 f5 g
( w( b8 k4 [5 n4 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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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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. |- r& x2 a7 n! J9 n' M+ S“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。4 s2 S* G8 v. J6 p# B& _
: C8 b# D* a1 N5 LLife. 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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1 {4 O2 \5 D/ v$ 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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