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! s( G4 D* L$ _6 b2 o生命就是小甜饼：
4 c* g i( M6 Q# b/ I# @0 q/ WOne 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.. `# L7 `* d6 X! d7 L2 k8 C
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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”。' {" o1 l9 Y8 k! \! q+ m
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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。
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/ y: W: Q0 |' \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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( R( z' w5 _9 k* E. x! n3 w4 Z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。, d- l" D8 x- ?9 R; r- O
+ F9 h7 ^9 q" H% PA 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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; D9 a5 p& x, ^: a0 H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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7 L" E* h {$ z( QWhen 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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, q7 H B5 S0 K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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4 h/ |4 ^4 q6 i6 O( D% QBut 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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4 @1 g7 |) L# l* H4 Q8 j4 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。6 }+ x) q2 W* Y5 P& e5 Y3 ?9 g
. I; @: N3 r h" z- t, c, tThe 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.+ g" [- T$ i4 z- H8 X
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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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) M9 r% p4 j# C, o: J1 p+ I( zYou 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. 9 N; U* R* X& k N# m6 n
' y+ \6 E* `8 b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。% {* j: z1 w3 A' o" j$ y& _( \
/ [" B1 A' A7 y' CYou 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。$ C. _5 d9 a2 p7 q& Y) S. h8 e
( o5 g0 Q! F; E6 S3 [% nHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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7 I9 p7 s. w! g7 G) b$ m. u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。3 F; n; N, ^5 M4 c0 {5 p/ Q
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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。6 I" |6 G% Q# g; r* F7 K. a3 |
5 h F; g$ P$ P1 STwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.! S+ O6 j7 a0 t- g r- ?+ a( X
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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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6 W% ^$ q6 d+ Q E# u2 `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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