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生命就是小甜饼：
# f! l$ P/ _+ c7 X! BOne 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.: F' Y% ]/ g0 S* D; P8 Y
& P* r2 g* ~% U# }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.9 P' ?$ g) P1 r+ R
7 g% l0 P1 c7 t* N3 x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.2 [4 L9 B1 ]# ?: x
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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。) Q9 @' }. S. @
, w( S" i, p: q- ^. K S- n8 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.' n9 h. b, @2 e+ K% U
T6 H- l1 |- I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。+ @5 i- M, F% k: k+ g3 C
8 ~) t$ L+ A. l$ CWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.! ]1 ?8 w3 z. r$ Q
7 y# f2 y, K- i9 F9 Q( b, k5 J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。5 j' Q! r. g# C, A4 y
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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。7 l* ]# f8 Q3 |& ^" {! Z
! Z2 _+ S# F5 Z8 vThe 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., a% Y4 g$ C. ~* B4 C6 ?0 g: a
% y- d, s# O0 r. T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。: D. Q# a. S& W( e3 D& B8 G
* `; r" x, C4 WYou 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. ) \/ H$ n- t/ P7 C- l/ d9 i
6 \/ R% B+ z, D4 M3 c, ^. Y. t2 |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。0 y5 T! X" e5 t9 ~
& f6 x" I" x [" _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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$ j- M: ?6 w7 v6 f1 C你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。' F9 U) R5 d: V1 @* {! ?
1 Z4 b( E5 l6 B; Y9 N' sHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.1 P9 l8 y7 X2 i# B
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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。
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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. "& @4 j$ x4 l% g# c0 F7 x# S8 q: @3 n
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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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9 o$ b8 G: u* H3 `4 H0 x8 }Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.& d$ a) z) F; ], q) n
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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”。* ]/ U6 O7 v8 k" W0 D" f
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