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生命就是小甜饼：
4 j. q) y) [5 j s) POne 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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5 t, m0 F3 M' h) R* \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”。) U8 h4 t, [/ ]5 D" ^
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing./ x7 t: \( Q( c& }) e- U& V
: |( T5 N: b+ _& S$ G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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: u! X1 P/ b3 j, K# HSome 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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5 k1 T: E; P; w: g- @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。$ Z4 `+ {/ q) r- E' _% O N5 i+ ^
7 `) |* A+ F4 R5 g7 }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.5 p% J+ v2 F! g4 L0 a; k
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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。% v0 i$ O/ j) M& ]0 K7 ?( E
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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.* l# K. Q. W4 |. `; m
+ g' B9 m1 `1 e0 `9 V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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$ [2 ?! v, X4 r1 JBut 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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' U* B6 w% F: _% u2 O+ G( eThe 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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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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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。# M* v0 }8 P* {8 ]
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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.4 y8 P! J) G$ g0 o* j
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。5 \9 L/ b3 R6 ? V7 y. Q6 B" K
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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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* U- V6 c* M- N/ i% h. V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. "
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) o+ m, i$ ~- Z/ t2 b: D6 }0 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。3 d/ }: S- G% X) b
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.* H0 c- z6 F* s( u* Y- O' [
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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。7 h' H) u' L1 ^$ k0 ^5 M
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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."3 V7 W8 B1 S* ~$ A. l5 `
* \/ H: ?% h0 U. X L4 ]+ d" h7 k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”。- w9 [1 _3 G) }: {4 x
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