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3 E* i2 ~4 Q! F" S生命就是小甜饼：
, I$ f: g. v& u" m) m/ HOne 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.2 s0 E) x3 D9 [" ?$ {9 ?: d
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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”。& V; |4 a3 `1 ?7 S7 }
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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# O. v2 l) A3 q$ \. h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。 a6 [; F8 R' @+ J- b: }8 f
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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." p# D$ k% s5 @4 w
1 X( {; H, ]% e! u R# N% f' t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。% c s+ S7 M$ h. \3 P+ Z
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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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v* e. [' Z3 @( P$ 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。: }' ]0 d, e: T+ S5 u
o0 J/ x: k! v: Q& iWhen 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。
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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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) M! o1 z2 ~3 g2 P& T1 @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。) N- L* K# o4 r( H) k
8 b8 ]+ N9 d- }$ wThe 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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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。! @3 R7 m- g# F$ }! p2 B4 ^
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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.; ^: I, z) X" Y2 K
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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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9 J0 ]& p. [0 n7 l# o' I3 EHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.( j, k% r+ A2 I+ b
: e7 o' _: M+ x+ {. I, ^& G: {2 f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. "4 x4 \' j, S% J% C* t% p S1 ?
- f, s8 T! @" t& d+ ?8 O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。6 t7 l7 c6 D3 A6 q$ w& c
6 r6 C2 P& h' a9 q+ J* Q* JTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.- {+ W# Z/ w5 @8 o% y5 ^
4 [" N$ L# \( E! T4 n, p0 y' x“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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# @7 i6 o3 k" `2 DLife. 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 X9 s0 o: U g
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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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