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生命就是小甜饼：
3 f1 V* {; H( \One 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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7 J1 N% y$ `4 N3 K/ ]" Q4 ?' A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”。) c9 @ _$ t0 I* R
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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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2 J9 B, O9 G% L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。7 A* I+ X2 a/ o/ ]% j5 u
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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。
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4 R1 C4 r: F) E/ f; f. R: EA 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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2 f- Z) e( t( g$ k3 U3 _6 i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。( H y* `' S3 Q. m( l+ Y
6 V* Y; d) Y3 bWhen 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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, r3 j. z- X8 j, m% e) c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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# J9 \3 o3 U- P) B/ I9 jBut 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.) O4 {" N( k3 l
5 r7 v3 m2 n3 i. 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。5 ~: q7 i) D* H" f5 H$ x! m1 D
2 M0 C1 W# k1 A r g% }4 x: aThe 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。/ T/ U7 u; S" P/ C, h3 I* F# y: T: `
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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。
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5 Q% ^+ I7 _' r. p# fYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.' n/ V; D2 U4 \- G# H' a* q, }
) |. G2 {6 Y9 E: K4 B" G \你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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; V0 P! }2 ^9 g2 }. SHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.* m7 W/ w; t, u% Q# j: ~+ s
4 N6 r9 p; b [7 d& x- e* s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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- f* J; p% v% v. sFor 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。, Q3 r0 |' O W% I' G' E7 B9 |
' w" A5 F! R( Q7 A& }9 eTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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$ h. q* N' {+ O% J“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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0 D: F( j! B$ ^7 G' w1 t1 hLife. 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”。0 @3 U. A! B6 C# `% n0 {
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