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生命就是小甜饼：
5 H' c6 m2 y: g2 e6 w, 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.
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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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* L4 n/ I& x" A l) l+ a+ AIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.7 J5 S8 S- M+ M* A5 e% I3 ]
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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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/ z& H1 Z9 x2 z8 c: tSome 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.8 A- p ~: G+ M- m: P
8 n V& M" S5 B4 w8 I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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# q. ^9 G4 s. h. I, \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。/ l. @) ^0 z( g2 s# E
8 _) c/ z8 h. K# K- T4 |0 tWhen 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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( a( _1 k# ~9 j& Z# e- n" h3 lBut 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.% z: w! I8 M, g6 ?0 Y6 v* U
& w5 j2 j5 @$ P U1 x2 K" K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。% S' }: W8 e5 N, e" K
% X0 Q, u0 I* ]( C* r: J* FThe 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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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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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。. ]8 a! O' i7 j" k5 v8 p. V1 } p
6 i8 g0 q) f' O" R0 MYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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+ b n# u: `4 E- P6 S你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。. W4 l, c L T3 s
, J1 z3 Z+ @5 b/ p0 M- CHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him./ k6 H$ z/ [- A2 S$ P$ Z4 Q, K
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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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: o* W1 R! ?: l% ~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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5 n: N4 Y$ L1 \& O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。& r9 `- O0 |0 ]) _" y
* W( ~9 V1 v6 Q$ i5 |8 h5 h; hTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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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。5 b7 U" G3 V0 _$ K
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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."0 K% Q) N& r* L6 e+ L0 H
) J9 R! c" f- M( f% C" T( G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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