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生命就是小甜饼：
& ?3 Y& A3 }0 ~- p& M+ z- f% F0 AOne 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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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.
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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。8 v5 L- r/ |! I6 g
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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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, [$ ? M2 m7 O$ m6 ?7 z) l! m( c( \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." C; D; U, ]* {+ s, D1 W7 ^
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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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When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.6 F- v9 w- w# y6 D9 l2 n* z
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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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1 q2 b* j' } Z+ GBut 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.2 j$ I0 O( ~6 r; w. s6 h
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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。2 x) Q% w0 o# m' l5 C
% P6 \/ N3 h7 i$ j4 SThe 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.3 G4 G9 B$ y% O( t! l5 s( G& D5 _
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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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4 l9 L6 ]- s2 z( `5 @" D' yYou 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. $ Y; {, M; [* v3 _( R
$ R! Z7 c" p5 x8 G3 r4 {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。5 A3 D. o" b# M/ Z8 m, X4 `6 k
$ ~1 P" b, l) @# l! s! a& X2 k* b9 aYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.% r) r( r* Y" Y' y& ~
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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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5 P& h* W9 T( M9 N6 A0 R" N6 {3 H ~. w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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! g+ Y& `7 ]8 W9 p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。4 S7 [7 w; B/ G' m) m
3 I; T7 G7 l; j1 o e9 T: fTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.6 ]' A. ]$ p5 ^ H0 S0 w
3 I2 Y/ |! v: I; ~ _“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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' }& q2 Y. |% A0 ]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."
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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”。7 t( X& ^5 L" v* g
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