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生命就是小甜饼：
) e1 o- W4 d. F8 Q7 ROne 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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, ^& I7 s8 t$ o" `9 D1 \/ 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”。
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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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7 B$ g/ ?/ [, ~4 E, O: k0 ]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。3 l5 k% A/ Q# b' @+ K
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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.5 q- I5 W6 s+ x' C; F
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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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* e3 F1 X: F. U, q P% p+ N4 `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 n7 l- \0 _, a
. a) ]) r9 p) U1 B; v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.2 `: [" R5 A V$ E5 R5 O6 Y( z
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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 I! n6 _3 |4 f! J
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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. G( A v+ i. k: i2 ~
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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。/ d" i ]) @% ~. M5 j* r8 D; N
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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。
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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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0 F& T9 P' t4 ]( CYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.. J) G- h2 w) ~$ r# q
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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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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.1 B1 m" X8 C5 Z' w
1 P3 g. {3 b1 ?+ ~0 g( ]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" B. G0 x2 \3 }9 H
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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。' |( G% f4 {4 T
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.5 [* H b" g- H$ D$ _- ], Z
6 u4 a& O ^& j8 V9 W/ {4 a“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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E2 j0 b: W) M" c" F, L$ f( GLife. 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."3 Q. |$ U" w2 k1 d* Y# N* P, U
( s% d0 M$ t/ B" 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”。8 J6 Q! B( m$ U) ~( H( Y
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