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生命就是小甜饼：
! Z/ J! R4 e) Y9 U4 w3 q, 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.
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3 p; t6 O. c5 Z" S" |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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5 w6 s+ U- y W* a/ l" j6 gIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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6 m9 r O# o5 o6 e4 {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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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.; B0 |/ v. j2 q+ @- u: X3 f
+ R. j9 h' r% L% Y" o9 X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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4 D* `; v/ F! \( f: L2 t0 _: XWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy." z$ }4 Z- b, W3 E! h
5 @; q5 t5 r+ B& r* k5 q) Z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。/ s3 p; c3 B9 T/ |
. R% X5 w. F. W! U% zBut 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。; E; } J0 W! C$ G% b! z0 L
4 I3 u# W( J2 O4 y% ZThe 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.. m+ r8 ?/ \0 y
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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. 6 e. K; M* U5 L9 c( j8 W
9 f6 v: C+ _! M' \$ X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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3 _. B5 g+ U! J" [- MYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。4 e/ L! u6 n4 y( Q8 r/ m
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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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4 f d6 h9 C! N1 o. h2 ~0 I8 d2 ^; I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。1 U7 ^/ P: v A( X; \: g
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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. "3 p+ Q! ?! c' ~: d1 o
6 ?. J+ m/ @9 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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; M0 k; \/ W" V) {Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.& U, p z+ A( C& Z. P' S" Y
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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."; q9 F# d x5 }7 F& g) C; C" d
6 ~* G6 W: m" a5 `+ Z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”。$ v& h" o2 f% W& K* O, Y3 r
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