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$ u6 X/ Z( b$ j- S& j3 O( h% d5 y% a生命就是小甜饼：
4 @/ n! S5 w! D: y/ POne 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., q6 x2 ?$ S" u* _% j4 s
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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”。* D5 P$ ~: A5 Q* ^, Q, P( u
- u6 ^' r2 C- s3 |0 ?) s# jIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.5 Q5 v2 G i$ r% h( ]. d
3 _ U) X! \8 T7 z% M- {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。2 q3 E2 y# G x& j* L& E' o
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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.7 U3 r# Q* ^: |$ ]/ Q
: B6 m/ N+ S" I" k) o' U+ R1 j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。& ?6 C* e% m1 C
J! H) X; Z" o5 _! J# v+ `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.
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, j5 V4 V+ M& p- x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。! \/ f( `9 N3 L9 [- F; A
. \: Y, P. J/ X u& K( |) MWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.+ R% g* I, s0 G! I8 T, l; k6 ~
! c' J* ?. c9 m. H+ D+ K0 r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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9 n; g3 Q/ a, J- w( q2 WBut 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.
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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 q% v9 N2 E6 V" x u( T2 {
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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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, f& ~) O, Q- {2 o" R; y( C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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8 \% v9 ~( e" n/ J. x1 l1 uYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it., j2 P3 `8 l" l' g! }
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。( v$ ~* ]2 i) Y. S6 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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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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: ~1 Y3 o+ R- e( }$ O# F+ dFor 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。6 w; E2 u; {: n# F
! c- W. q3 m2 o9 _) [Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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$ N. r+ |2 t0 g" f8 \, p“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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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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, O3 u5 ^: p( G; e: A2 _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”。: S9 f% q2 D6 J' {2 Q- i; z
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