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生命就是小甜饼：
8 y0 h- e. O& p, }9 |One 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”。
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: t& ~" a& K" B. cIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.- i/ Y/ S& @0 p8 A# K) R( b& J
4 Z4 t& J( |* G4 P* q ]1 C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。8 R: n8 i% D6 [
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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.2 f8 B/ @5 T. p" e& M, H9 a& L
5 @* N- P( j8 R' U) }* C: X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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+ Y, w) Z" j2 p2 j2 T$ {# aA 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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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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/ o' K2 {3 |4 Q1 W' l: f; BWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.0 E- l& c0 n) F1 J6 H
$ h: ^3 N8 h2 a) J, [! e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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+ k$ a; i+ b. `$ M+ o" c% T4 UBut 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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% R6 M9 }& R% o; j, q! I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。( ~; ?9 x. V, G
: C9 D1 m) @6 v3 d0 HThe 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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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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! N/ @- }" Z5 L0 N6 J. c0 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.
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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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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。% ^5 R( f! _$ ]) h
6 S% j; n. I. p# p3 y( ~3 tHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.! @' v7 O2 S$ E5 }9 H
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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 t' J# H6 K/ k$ F& j1 l) pFor 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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p7 G. F. r0 a" A$ z( D& }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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% F1 Y K$ p0 F% H. M/ aTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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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。
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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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. l# ?8 |. c8 f6 z3 h- Y8 |4 y. e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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