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生命就是小甜饼：
5 B1 V+ I9 e# k: POne 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.+ q+ G; V! E7 t9 I' G6 l
; y% ^2 {- l! E) c L$ E5 t- H+ W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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, p+ E- M' \5 P8 z' Z3 ?If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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{' \+ S; _0 E7 S3 w. c. f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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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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9 Z$ C! M4 i: |9 m7 U! t- G6 zA 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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, P; v/ k T H) J/ f" M' I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。) ~( s8 V3 Y1 q
" A- I& P2 _# z/ Z' KWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.
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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。( V# C1 n: d7 V' w/ X. s4 n
( s; g- Y7 z' C+ _, nBut 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.& V( }+ i8 Y1 S5 D6 j& r
0 A* i! d) T- {8 B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。0 N6 h/ y/ E1 ]8 A6 F
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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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0 C8 j8 Q, X' u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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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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! b: m- F) M8 Q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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: m0 `) E; {% B( u! E) T$ ?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。: A. c4 B0 d/ [
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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。, L' F( m+ X1 o% b1 @- ~3 S! C
. _! s; E+ `+ C9 J! O3 i# X6 g3 [& SFor 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。
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% U) e( Q. A% K/ ^. D) `; E1 aTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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' w( ]+ A' G/ S4 N: G4 Z4 R9 r+ _“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 K5 _1 X7 a }- R9 w
. S8 o9 I6 R8 c1 ~. H0 oLife. 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."8 p+ \- [3 Q0 ~3 }7 V+ H
( F" k6 N4 G( r+ i$ Z0 ?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”。6 Y3 L' W" ]% [
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