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生命就是小甜饼：
9 X9 ?: r* S! h; a1 jOne 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”。
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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。 r6 n! J6 J* k; I% L! L! f) _
% e" y; H) J) A2 e- a# F9 LSome 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./ R1 v3 J) A. `* t2 T
, C# y& m0 v( M4 o0 D6 p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。. N. Q; t; m" R$ p. j
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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.1 U4 b ]+ X8 o3 F2 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。
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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.8 |5 p& s, i6 ^& M- v+ F6 h
# a. Q3 E+ q, e& u1 g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。# F- d% p4 }" i4 w
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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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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。1 z* x9 z; L. A `6 i% t+ A; H* k9 ?
; V% M+ B0 p, o, \; n. I, a* qYou 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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0 R& X$ k7 ?: i' E: H J( UYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.% W5 d+ d) f, X5 G
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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, |( k, Q1 O! U- J" M: D8 aHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.; F5 R( _, m! C0 f* ^0 O( H8 x
) y: ], X7 | b3 T3 _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。* J# U2 Y) N8 ]7 d9 l4 `
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For 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。% C9 V8 ~% L/ S9 c
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.! C7 w8 z" }% Y$ u) s
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“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。* q5 t# W4 G1 s' E7 |0 K0 B
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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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- i; f. L- H7 G$ k- k# Z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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