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生命就是小甜饼：
, |2 ]# V# _$ L% r* i! V( ZOne 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.- ~$ F' Z X( j* h6 h
8 E, H+ K& }" A2 [: M' N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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* k: e& h' J, q. s/ t- @, eIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.3 \8 n2 o7 J/ n+ A" @+ @6 x
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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。* V8 d! ]: n- F* a) a8 B
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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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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。! L; s# M% Q# z9 H! U) L# `
1 Q" e% \9 B U3 `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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" u' A! u# r1 o2 S# J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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& v1 S) l1 ~& q. a% RWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.. `) {/ x9 C; R0 r2 [. u* n3 p: r3 ^
+ Y/ \, @& g. j! F9 f( i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。- V+ B' t: i: K1 I' k& o( @% Y+ A
7 O& r7 _, J: MBut 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。& O+ y# K( u5 h' E& _/ Z9 S
* Q9 ]$ v1 p5 P. W9 d+ OThe 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.9 n7 T9 Y$ s. E5 i. E
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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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) ~/ f- }/ n& D9 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.5 @3 r. r3 l4 s4 A" b) i
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。( P& {; V" A- i" }0 I6 a& b
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.% ?2 V8 ]! F' Z; X' P: I
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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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# j) `0 C# r& B# T7 vFor 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。2 n1 o+ t( i3 V6 G4 X3 d0 ?& H
; k. U/ y" Q1 T# E, ^# U& yTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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+ \" D/ z- d! ~8 e“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。3 D$ h8 T2 a0 w# X2 B$ k% L) i
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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."# f4 J' [6 i- @
$ o5 V2 J' G% S1 V6 O2 d: A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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