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生命就是小甜饼：
( I9 s' `- } kOne 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.& p$ e1 P: W; ?
# q& O5 B5 W9 V. k1 G$ r1 f ?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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; U: x( L/ c1 G! C. g, g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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A* |% C& ]2 Z. q, fSome 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.9 b: o: j. z+ f3 L& I
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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。& t( {9 T. A4 e5 M% s! H
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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.7 } M& o, Q( B6 ~) o0 @8 p- X
4 A9 b4 w" \" ]7 Q- E4 n* Q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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9 s) g# P/ l8 q* o* Y* N4 V3 oWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.- O7 L* `/ P# d2 {+ B8 v& ~
, `( i& t+ f9 G2 y' l- 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。# K1 \7 H( b9 v0 J! L& V8 o
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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.0 O3 N& b1 X! c$ w0 [& X, 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。1 g+ R4 T" b- w% u6 ^$ `( N
' L! k* w8 ?! A P8 O+ x+ i3 uThe 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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" w4 _# T# u( w0 vYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。9 P+ {( U9 V: ] q% F. B
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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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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。( ]7 S/ s M% l% U
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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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. ^7 A6 C* l& @! O9 V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。) x( n# k8 y. w* e; e; P1 }% J
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.4 c5 S8 P( I, L8 F1 w' {$ ?7 y8 H
, |! q# K2 t3 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。2 n, T* I+ n* _- [4 s$ L
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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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- U: @0 ~: g4 t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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