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生命就是小甜饼：
3 i( W- z! T* r# ^( VOne 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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# G L0 v5 Z0 y3 ]0 T+ ]: z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”。) f& E; I( i- H, T2 P
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.) H7 [* e, C7 [7 r) d, ]
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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。
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( w u o' e5 x' w; [4 j- lSome 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。0 i$ J5 l# p- l
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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.
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1 D+ A6 e" Y% R8 ]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。8 u6 l* R( \8 x" p, R: @4 a
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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. O+ P. ?" H- T* c7 A2 ~; o* n
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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。$ K& n1 y9 ?4 ~8 W; X, z3 H8 e
# ]8 [. ?0 @8 e& i: ABut 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.( Q: T- ~; g; K+ P5 w
, V* f7 ~( O+ t. p# y1 y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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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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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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$ g7 w. H5 v/ F0 ?2 L# sYou 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. & _- T- ] R9 U9 I
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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。6 `0 a! ?* Z7 N% a
# K$ r8 S1 }; J. S9 r; J) Y% PYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.9 M( }( s/ T7 t
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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.
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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。/ G7 F( j$ B! K/ R. b7 B
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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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\8 p C" X y2 k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。# J) j$ X a9 g; [
3 v+ U0 o$ R7 D y; }/ k' d8 aTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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+ Z! ~2 m1 M/ X m. w- ]“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。: z) g8 A) d4 V; H* R
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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."4 h* d2 t7 C k8 D2 J; ]! b# l( b
7 D @9 Z$ k+ w( }3 S0 ~+ 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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