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生命就是小甜饼：
( E: D; Z- }' Z, wOne 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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( L$ ]8 x4 o9 D0 I" v4 A+ V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”。) h6 C) U b/ Q
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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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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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! m1 y4 @0 O! R' j5 P! v& s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。" ~1 F* S# o1 Y
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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.$ R3 s0 _. T8 Z0 \
& }5 Q* T3 k+ `8 j: D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。" j; @( z, O7 q; i" E4 d- @9 W M& r
; f! a) o. S' Y( x3 j8 o% HWhen 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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9 f( L7 B; v! l7 E) Z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 j! Y* f I4 `& y, {. S" u: L) a
' t% V' A0 n' v- q7 n" F8 XBut 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." G3 j, F; s5 m; o0 B. T. t4 f3 f
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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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The 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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2 {6 Q/ N: L0 W/ 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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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. : }9 S0 U' _7 }6 O5 X. G3 G
) w% P( j+ e8 v0 P2 Y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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9 K' S( e$ x) d3 {6 k2 C: q# FYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.- j! q3 C% l* K7 H1 z9 R
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。8 e9 O4 K6 s: m' ^6 \" C# S& J
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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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2 ~+ P7 f4 i6 _1 ?. ~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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7 P8 H2 q6 C4 a$ n7 _4 XFor 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。; Q0 U* ?$ j# d0 c: J) D
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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' W9 s, c6 u! Y$ ~3 z! B: n( W. o& 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。0 C6 [4 t/ g6 D
. u- k6 l1 H$ sLife. 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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