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生命就是小甜饼：
& a, {) p& `, aOne 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.1 |1 u8 c6 D. ?1 x+ W
% h; i& X8 \+ e+ `* r3 w! r( X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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/ ^$ L7 I- f) F* x0 _If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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3 d' s1 P) W* u# Z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。5 y: i# A+ d9 X/ p
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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.- j8 B$ {+ K/ E* N+ V+ F6 v8 B( X
* a# Z. T$ f8 l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。+ Y. r+ ]5 D) G5 i/ e
% c; J# }" h+ a# NA 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.; K: u( d& @, N8 v: m" s% g
W0 o$ [ C1 N- M' f2 \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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When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.' }0 @6 d, ~) u1 w2 t2 X
# A+ ] }0 I I/ r! W- p1 x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。+ O+ l/ i9 N0 _
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But 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./ k# D5 |4 `! t" Z3 {& J# D
{4 {# l8 }8 {3 l! | J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。: t& _! _; T+ n$ H! I7 Q; @
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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.
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% a* i& v6 G5 e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。' E. B& p0 l1 u% |
8 X5 b$ E, v1 X, U$ w2 i1 N Q3 F' vYou 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. 5 u0 S* F3 M: k1 r
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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。: l* w+ \, Z9 Y( f* z# L
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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.
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) @0 u- u3 t9 @: A你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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" l& l4 h W" W3 L% J1 J/ P( AHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.( M6 P, U! \8 @ h; v/ 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。; f1 [2 n% [/ }! f+ U
3 b2 [8 ^2 H+ d, a3 r5 iFor 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. "1 [9 E. h, G# |: X6 |2 r
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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。
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8 D& i% v: Y* ^8 l, {" PTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.6 c) e) t" H8 _# d; X9 W
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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”。' o7 U, X( \* i1 \
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