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; g) m4 n6 ^7 `2 Z生命就是小甜饼：, J* Y0 j. Z H5 R. x
One 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. h# d. A$ Z1 o, M! N
V: G) ]; ^1 U4 ^& K. r/ d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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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.# }4 @* V# N' R; W8 P: I* ]) @
3 g; j; d0 d: o" N# F% B8 F4 r5 K& ~1 ]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。4 A" Q% u0 |/ {
Q: R% K4 k& Q9 TSome 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.% X* H/ X3 S' T s
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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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; r& o# |/ X! tA 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.: C* u! W; H5 r5 R5 w m
3 e! J+ b- N) {' ]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。/ s0 {3 q* O' n# f: _0 t; Y
0 l; J, o, }) \2 f9 a3 x& D, {9 NWhen 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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# I+ F0 D5 B9 n* d8 I5 t1 L, \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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6 A! k+ D( l8 r5 d8 L# zBut 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。" b. ]3 j8 G* u- D
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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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! i4 e, E4 v9 \4 }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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, v- o+ N* \7 K% R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。; g2 B/ H$ U$ c+ h
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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.
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, d) P6 L; c9 L4 n. s* m你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。1 }; r# c& V2 k& T" D) V
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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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: M: A9 u' N3 o, ?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。6 Z" T e f+ s
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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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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。/ a" {9 p8 V$ J: c
$ S# `2 ]; j/ R+ F+ B5 GTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.! \$ X. I' k; \5 n0 M. V
. T' N" K$ J1 D4 i) 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。. U* X, }+ Z! F% n1 o2 S
+ G/ k7 c8 r0 E+ ~! ]5 sLife. 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."
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; ~8 w% f% w4 `5 G: o8 o. P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”。7 r+ I: f- l! b" K- Q( V" o
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