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生命就是小甜饼：
4 `6 |* X3 B5 e" ?1 U# O+ z EOne 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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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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u" z a1 i, D3 S: m3 L! b- s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。: b# ]* g% s) A+ l9 ]% [4 m0 {
6 ?0 C- k% H; I/ q; 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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6 L0 d. c* \9 X B1 R6 w( @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.
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V+ E8 K1 @7 N* f% {& t" [! U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.
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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。
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2 e0 J# o7 ^. ~) A' f6 }- CBut 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.7 P( a5 V1 T. }
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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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x# y' C D& I3 `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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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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* O4 c. I* ]: X( h& w6 {7 O% 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. 7 H" [# \9 W& G, m: w0 l
" B* x5 Y% F$ @ `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。- q, v" x4 ~$ h& r) k( v4 _& s
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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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; \9 X8 v3 J+ @' F. N你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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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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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。( }# O" |$ z5 V0 S0 A
. p% ^ O1 I% Q: y: k# I) h7 WFor 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 ^2 S& u! P( {: T
) H6 h. c/ q. P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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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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/ G# S5 l' s3 H, L0 @2 x* O“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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9 P7 m- S$ V( G: G/ Q# s2 Z+ U' z: OLife. 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."4 ~5 L$ v; ]/ ~& Z9 J) `; ?& l" y
5 g f& }" |) u2 C( u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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