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生命就是小甜饼：
+ J$ Z' a) B" t' h9 P% MOne 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.% q* }5 h" I$ j" \% J
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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”。6 a, c6 u$ `1 I) t
* }' l9 F( f' M0 H1 h S- [If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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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。2 P6 @6 b, g; r' [" q4 K1 D
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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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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。- @, f8 I, q. l4 e: ]; t# _3 m
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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.# }/ h$ ^: S' w! O- c
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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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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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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。0 a: l: D, P6 p* o' l" ?, N
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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./ |5 G& x/ z$ ^% T& I
; e2 A% ~8 m- _( r- u5 D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 t% [; R M9 b" YThe 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.$ J M! }+ p8 F! W5 q
+ r, e; b7 o6 y+ u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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5 ^9 O+ G+ j$ d$ jYou 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. 7 j7 T# z% h( T+ b
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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。0 B" |9 r9 g* P# X+ {9 |
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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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. U* f8 K& `7 P0 ?" X你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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* _7 }' ]/ A; }8 LHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.# ~" D2 `: d. r& i/ ^
1 r- o' Z; t; X5 a, C9 A2 v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。4 H. I2 M. m, b. K8 d: b
2 @9 }& H8 V% h# W$ OFor 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. "5 _9 I/ ~9 Z/ q# w
3 B& ]" \5 s9 N3 T* S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。2 d* y- @1 b- O9 K
3 t4 m3 X2 w% K: Q6 fTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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: v' N `2 F* ~# ?! b4 B“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。* V! ~5 ]) M9 ?
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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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$ }1 H% X+ M( O. C* Q2 d$ F! F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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