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5 H) _1 E/ V: O生命就是小甜饼：
' Q; Q) v5 ~" C$ ~; U( S% @+ bOne 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”。6 F+ t# G1 U1 N
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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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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。" [) U1 c6 V& _" _# q8 w& r; l
% _ G, ~ s5 J/ U. C wSome 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.
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3 }7 M8 r# {8 Q+ v8 ?# w0 Q: b8 u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。2 N8 y0 j' h! H& A+ u$ [5 ^ C% R
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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.0 N. [; O2 B: K% c3 D y
$ B" e5 Z# Q& |' b; b& s7 l. g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。 b" [: ~( C& q1 o3 P
: y: A; e3 o3 b9 a5 ]When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.) S0 i8 g4 h8 A( P$ f* n, M
) \% g/ U( l9 h+ h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。* U( {8 _$ D. f5 w+ o- k! Q, I
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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.
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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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! T; m# o4 t0 D/ m- k+ C5 rThe 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./ }, R. @2 t1 r
- V n! W% }( \: d m% z; 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。' k' Z1 s1 y, {; i
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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。& M4 r n- v0 T/ W, L( u3 n
' W7 Q+ _, @* q5 v! o4 C: @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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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。3 K1 X2 b% h; I0 m8 y
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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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% u7 y v* |$ P* Y6 M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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; v( ^& Q3 S R+ |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. "; o; C4 B* D8 i4 X; n& P" v0 \9 x# J, n
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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。 ~" {) X/ j) x
* d! V- a& g5 ITwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.4 J; |9 H, P5 j7 N6 C
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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。. h3 P4 \* B3 x/ X
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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."0 m! Y4 {6 Q4 r; i0 W+ B
: N( q% n+ d: k9 p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”。- D+ \6 L! S: \" \& y
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