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生命就是小甜饼：
" m, m8 k* k8 TOne 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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" A, ?) w, A, X _# |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., C' p. c N! D
$ P5 ^7 l8 g& o& C) n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。5 u5 O5 z' x0 _9 Q
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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.# @% g8 f& R, Y; s. v2 _5 D' k
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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。! R |7 v2 A' n3 X3 e' {; L
& ~- j- t9 Q2 i4 Y' T& l" S9 [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.2 c4 \/ W8 W B/ C& }0 B' n: e
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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。$ V1 T2 ]" ~2 x
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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.! G# r* s/ s/ `- a: P
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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。1 h/ V2 j/ ^+ n
5 E9 X2 Z: r! I$ ?: ]( v6 KBut 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。5 I5 e) Y5 H5 U$ I3 }. p
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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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+ k7 {* i- \4 B( 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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5 j/ L# D2 O9 k/ vYou 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. , U; n8 V# a& G {& ?! M( M
* |6 c- p+ f$ w$ E0 a, N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。, X. ~8 x0 C0 e6 N
. G# Z% H" Y# h* f6 JYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it., u7 |/ d9 I3 J* n+ H9 M: Q, Z; f4 m
3 A/ |4 f5 Q; K你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。, U+ {( {0 T2 o1 }8 M2 S
5 q" N7 g1 X, vHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.! _6 C* e7 B, B$ Z
( F! K& V- n+ o/ z7 J+ \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. "+ J. C% \7 E5 M% O1 }* {
3 l* S& k) M+ Z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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2 M9 s) W% M1 Q3 B' h, zTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.! z4 b8 [! o9 h5 q1 B7 { R( T+ f( X
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“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。; w4 w" \( U" s/ ^$ y' ~
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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."3 e2 | p. i" c
/ P9 X% R7 J, E& U3 P4 }. ~* 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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