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生命就是小甜饼：
/ c% Z' v5 u8 q( p% 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.
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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”。9 g9 Z& m! ` A5 R# P: o4 @
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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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$ A, w: o; J6 Y) B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.7 H( _% V9 K X2 }; F+ c
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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。
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! ?8 s* s9 F. a9 C) X. K) t0 FA 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.7 V) F, \9 Y% W+ j3 E _
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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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7 n/ ~; i" ]6 w# CWhen 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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/ ~1 w$ d. s l$ u# P8 @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。9 P& g7 q* G V; c
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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。
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( l9 \4 j( {( DThe 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.2 m- g# A! _3 v- l- u* \
5 S- B2 H3 C O" @" o O. 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。
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) W% i F; C: {, c; N2 zYou 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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. A# r+ O0 w3 }* A0 c1 F/ F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.& A$ B/ R* q5 L, z9 [- K1 v
' O& J/ x- D+ Q1 u你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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1 P0 \2 `& U6 e. j( PHaving 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。6 Q; w! j, h4 k }
$ X; z! `: C. w- U' kFor 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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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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1 {( F/ P6 ^9 y E( c" sTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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! l- O8 R$ S/ K" p“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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4 m' O8 U: S7 h2 P% N! m; u0 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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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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