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生命就是小甜饼：
w$ U! o9 o6 F; z, O2 vOne 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”。3 L* D& l3 S: E+ e
3 j8 P) F% m7 y- ^6 D( z% }9 O' uIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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0 N3 S) a" A: s6 F& e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.% M; F. ?. Q. |3 a u
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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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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.# g7 t, M" T3 T0 l- j) N; O
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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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$ b+ y' Z2 ~; N( w% @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。! o" c; `9 x) n% J+ b' D
2 U5 h o4 h- R6 t* t% X5 U) A7 SBut 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。
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5 V; j" x' D9 M. SThe 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.8 a: ^) K0 ^; O$ d6 ?' I
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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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4 W# K6 _6 r4 O+ H4 k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。$ l5 F, A: `# b2 }2 s6 s
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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.- F; W5 @5 w8 O7 o# q
" c4 z/ L, P2 Y你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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6 u9 [' U4 S5 J- ]& NHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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2 F6 p- ^* P0 Y5 b. r8 D4 z; h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) z8 w s, h' @ G0 o7 G! ^% `% EFor 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。
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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8 I& \" a% m6 n4 x- ?“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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5 T# |( ]# @2 @/ HLife. 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.", o1 @3 o6 n% [6 \& m- j% L
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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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