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生命就是小甜饼：
. \: T# Z( ^0 P$ Q+ Y5 [" ?One 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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" e9 S9 V3 F/ ]; y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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2 P$ A8 D- m' I$ U! DSome 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.: h% H( }9 f& y8 h
) O8 b( x+ q4 _/ V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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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.! D; O6 m: i0 G' b9 p3 V7 h/ A
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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。 h+ r+ t4 J: [! K4 U5 z
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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.
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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。# u2 I' \: Y. K6 `1 }( y1 E
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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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- f1 `) ^0 ~( _6 R$ m: G8 W- J/ {" G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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, [. d$ E# s r% j! x- I* f' _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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/ [* u6 A ?) C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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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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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。4 P2 @9 [, x2 h" J0 w
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him., ~' E7 L5 S& L% {) h2 O8 m: E- N
. j8 x: i0 N. C- [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。/ F/ ?& m4 d4 G3 U0 {1 ^' B
. q1 i7 ~! N1 T, U$ XFor 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. "9 ?" Z5 i! r$ ?3 \
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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。0 }7 n3 Z' z& b0 x0 V4 s% f) f
5 q4 x2 ]' V- J9 ~- pTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.& l8 r5 O7 j. U" V# {2 O' F
1 Z, a v% \; e4 X“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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`/ x) {% B0 D( [# U( w' YLife. 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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5 v8 k m; c5 C6 C' F d Z# b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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