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生命就是小甜饼：
+ ]! z% Z8 A4 \2 A* HOne 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.9 f/ ~( t+ \" [4 P
5 t( S w% ~" u' v5 b' ^9 \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”。" A1 }2 _: V& W
4 Q9 P& r/ u" J2 F: d5 [& S W, L4 wIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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: L, H+ }- s- A0 `3 ~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。. @, o0 `8 O: \; U% v4 N7 ?& g
1 E1 `. x8 k7 [! q5 N/ XSome 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.( x' C; C$ J" e2 k. M
# g* D9 r$ T; `& T; t5 F- K# g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。% T3 ^$ R0 S7 I0 c% C5 ]8 A; S! w4 t+ E
* G& g# G: \3 s3 mA 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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9 Q6 z. u( l5 d. T" Y1 u2 _0 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。5 J# f- T4 c% E# ]: R0 F* {
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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.% T) ~2 L* S' m- ]) n
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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。5 E& d3 b. O6 j* L. ~
1 P; p8 w/ A1 _+ Y! ~+ V" DBut 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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# a. @& y n1 ~. ]: W" U+ f0 E/ cThe 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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1 `& Q# h1 n0 f9 K+ b. L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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7 j# R9 M6 h' j1 d* nYou 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. ! ~$ e4 p/ ]3 B
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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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2 J4 V0 W/ q* s" H; c2 @You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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9 L# a7 A- b; z: y, K; T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./ Q/ F7 O W- V/ u
8 T+ {; I0 K' z9 a, x5 ^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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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。3 s: e+ e, q& L
! ~5 o, |! p4 w# h6 |" \Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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( {+ `- E4 O6 S" 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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, l3 x5 c1 [+ T3 r$ E, z: D! a5 aLife. 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."0 P9 |/ \& U, {7 D) _ w0 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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