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生命就是小甜饼：
- J5 R, u8 w% F6 HOne 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.4 J$ k3 i) g1 n' Q$ \ i; d
( \0 ~6 N1 G" Q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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1 U" w1 l) B2 V# x0 c" tIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.5 `; |5 j; q q8 A8 I- H9 ]* d
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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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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.
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; t3 c7 E5 K) F/ Z8 B+ K$ B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./ }: z2 n" A3 \& S) J& D2 B/ \
: X1 C6 q3 i4 t8 W l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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6 I T" e% H; D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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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.' d {1 B) u, H5 t
+ v6 L4 E, ^4 Q% {$ u* |; @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。9 Y+ Q+ p4 t9 v# c
0 Y* t! Z8 V6 i R5 {8 M# }6 gThe 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.5 N5 g) e* P, I/ t
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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。% A5 A2 y V6 @6 q7 x
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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. 2 c4 F- O+ ~* @' \
2 S" L6 z# ^! Y% N3 U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.9 B% h3 d0 l: a% I$ n, h
* L6 m8 I* @9 c" o你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。9 `( H. p, U! @4 G: h
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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。
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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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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.2 L5 I0 n3 x$ t/ ?' T l& L' ?
( W( g2 k: s. F9 q. m: a! N“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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# ^. V! g% s% w' LLife. 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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% h# \6 w1 v: @& _8 k' {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 d# }% Z, f& O2 M7 a
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