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生命就是小甜饼：
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& Y" ?6 ^! p( s# N/ g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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: S) F7 L6 G1 J; G! pIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.# Q( A! u3 ^" e8 r+ @2 N
) g0 \0 q% q* l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.
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4 ]9 m0 V# U1 G" 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。
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% l( i' {3 M% F4 \: d8 {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.
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% f0 g! t% x K1 N0 L/ |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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) A$ o0 r( ^9 [3 N& g5 k; WWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.- a$ h5 K% H% d+ T9 ~* g
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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。
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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。" y+ k+ `4 j9 G! E* u
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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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! s( ], W. e. q; `4 f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。( n+ f) A$ f6 G% K- x
1 k5 \" _; ], [6 ~; AYou 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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1 r4 U G7 P% w4 N' V$ N+ aYou 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。
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.! P' l4 a8 O, [! ~. g
7 {" u S" W F7 l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。4 g9 E( ~" ?, d+ ^" J+ O. I g( ]
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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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# z2 D9 }) n# j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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% C7 q: m# U6 g3 Z1 B“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。5 V( l a) o: |
J C# A6 B9 z, `* B8 V QLife. 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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4 S: m5 m9 A4 ^6 K1 v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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