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生命就是小甜饼：
2 A% k3 P0 C* b2 o# ]; KOne 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.2 R( ]4 ?8 ?: F' U6 G& f1 R
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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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" ~, ]& R5 K6 L6 LIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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7 B% @# T9 r3 h" m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。, }/ V+ [! W: X; B' D3 J2 D8 `
! C" w2 s$ u' E: I& F7 }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., N9 z$ H6 Z. o7 |( d1 z9 h
! W' }% k7 y6 ?1 c5 @" R" C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。, J5 l: M8 r7 g; q' _" d3 `: e, q1 |
0 p. p- r* I7 Z6 W# P. {5 Z, l% sA 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.2 p9 S6 H7 i* B& L; c# y8 V7 M5 H: `+ `
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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。9 l: |$ ?5 v& A' }7 J. a
0 e% U* q. G+ sWhen 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。, i3 ^; l k4 V" }, ~# ^/ i
! H1 o: r9 t) P3 F- 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.
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: K0 g$ v- v& d: r( z# U# 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。
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9 k( U1 d; Y U4 EThe 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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5 g J) F; e/ U m! g3 [/ |* J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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! r7 G5 }/ ~9 b% ]0 P& S5 Q$ O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。0 F5 z8 i& h9 a- x$ I
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.7 g1 o ~. f2 r( A
) [1 {+ k* G+ R I5 U# q) }) H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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" ~/ o9 A( y: |. f, {: _, k# pFor 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. "$ ^; Q4 ?; S% m8 [0 k% E
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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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, n: a( \/ y+ ]$ V4 iTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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$ \: f( O6 `- i. @“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。: S" O( d1 h( O' i& h+ L
- u8 C% C5 `9 rLife. 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."$ \8 C$ g: d+ ]3 l% g
% B# Z3 a7 |' X k+ s; i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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