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% j; i$ j- U4 l% ~生命就是小甜饼：
# j# W1 H; O& U+ a( ]" `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.+ z0 Q9 J3 X1 J1 R- w1 l7 B; C
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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.9 A# Z: W+ i/ t' ^- Y7 |7 y9 i% B
% ?! B/ Z* Y" P8 j: R* A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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* b! @* Y% R8 w9 K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。' F2 f" [0 ]5 W6 _7 A) y0 F0 n+ w
2 J y( `1 M! K: p J+ Q3 ^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.4 |; f$ ]( w, C' {" `1 x
4 {+ j0 G0 R1 X; U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。+ d! r! O8 x, I2 b) R7 u% j
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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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1 s) v, l. C2 n% V# k/ f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。& b' S3 |$ B" j' m% [2 k2 U" P' [
2 k) p- r+ {% QBut 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 W R" w' C$ h0 R+ ?8 t/ b
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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.4 S$ `# |" W: I. C, @1 M
" G" p) t3 K8 x0 |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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$ @/ @# F) }: X3 HYou 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. 8 D) e* D F r& E5 O
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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。3 j; I+ k1 _3 j, d, D7 H
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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.4 t' t R0 P" F/ W. _+ f4 ?8 y
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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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; S4 j5 ~3 B! ^+ AHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.( `9 z$ r r: |( Y
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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。
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% _: C: T* I/ d' BFor 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. "3 H* F2 d5 b3 }& G s& J
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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。8 f# c% ?$ T/ |! e7 [% c6 z# Z z
/ d$ V+ i8 `2 S0 K" `- Q. B) P' zTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.5 E2 P: B! j+ l# z' Y- D. D) f
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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。9 k2 D/ d' i# W" l6 z3 z. S: _
* h0 T( |1 X8 |/ I1 F" P1 dLife. 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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+ P/ s4 E! u9 B9 c4 _$ t% Y9 g+ v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”。3 \9 Z* |6 H- L1 r1 N0 u0 R8 S
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