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生命就是小甜饼：
! z# S* j( J7 FOne 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”。
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6 J; e4 a, B2 Q- y, N- |/ hIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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6 |; ]) J* b! @8 P/ Z4 z$ D- j+ F. T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。
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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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* o9 Q! T% @6 z" q6 h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。# _; v3 d6 l- U R; ^- B$ N
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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.$ C7 B- u( {" r3 R `) I) P
' Z9 I9 V2 J3 b( D9 O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。( x, Y0 U! @' ~* t5 ?( b; H, o
* x" l2 W! V! U, mWhen 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。 I( X# x# g! T( J
$ [ H0 N# K( R; vBut 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.0 f3 ~- c$ Q0 E$ f$ G# b; b9 ^" `
2 M" D# [3 D( U1 h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。% h) V5 `- ~) Y7 z. [
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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." S v1 X E" ^: r9 o0 F& p* T) ~1 Z
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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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. G( z) N: a' V1 F* S4 {2 \# 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.
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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。7 N8 N' b( ?+ o* e+ o4 m
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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.! {3 ]5 R7 S+ u4 ]7 z2 U
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。( v2 K4 C8 i$ ]) J$ c1 _2 @; D
4 B8 F$ C( u! ^4 mHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.2 g, ^. _% A% \) G# U0 [) r) ^
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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。! ^% }0 X% k/ A( e4 h/ h
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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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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。3 }! s6 A$ S; x. D0 \- h: o
1 E) J# m3 V/ f" m/ g0 a2 bTwo 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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