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生命就是小甜饼：
2 J) w( S! V2 l3 r' ROne 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." C5 t1 N6 F, r3 y# f: X
( w: k/ e) x" G. a, v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”。- X5 T) i& t* W$ ~6 F' x
1 B; W" `: f7 J% B! DIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing./ p3 q* i! u# ~- K, m
2 N2 J- d7 ?0 r! T: D1 ?) M$ P6 D4 y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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$ ?% r& L6 K1 J* Z7 uSome 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。
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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.# v# S7 J- e2 K5 z0 S" M5 \
6 m* @# x* K6 ]& y1 Q% b/ 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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1 X, i7 u* }9 k; s: Y' o9 C! dWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.# P) g! }# n" {( [2 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.( ]/ W- ~9 |' ~/ x- M& Q
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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。8 ?6 m' b. k! ]7 A
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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。4 P* R7 F5 ]: Y; Z5 L
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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。
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. v8 N/ ]; i- `7 wYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.# g/ W$ i7 _! V8 f; J
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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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$ B0 j( u' s% xHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.$ h: i+ Z C+ i6 ?
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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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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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$ ~5 U6 K! L ]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。* Q8 |' a$ B8 {9 N1 d0 L
6 D l; ]- n' q3 E- d, j2 uTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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; r6 R5 \; m, y“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."0 C" M! D: _6 o Z/ T/ ^( w; \
0 l% y2 w Y% c' X9 G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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