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生命就是小甜饼：
: p- j+ d) _9 J8 p/ u+ cOne 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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3 {" J: U1 N/ y5 l: Q: E, j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”。8 [5 Z5 V D0 E: M0 U, g
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.+ G6 s1 Q' i; ]8 i# |
+ O4 Z- r2 S) x2 s3 B9 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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; K6 y( n' n0 o* m8 }" G9 ?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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6 @* W& {% |" \' ] l5 P& n7 L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。& ^! g% F4 ~4 o6 _7 s
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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.' w: T" O/ w& c& l' ~
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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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6 H7 p% G: v0 _7 ~# EWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.0 `, t6 l7 F* I# M0 \
: F! j' x8 q, I+ n/ h6 I% j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。7 w, U" r- l0 _5 |6 c/ z6 l9 K- h
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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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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。# C6 |- C3 w6 t: b) u( o F! R
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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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5 L( K& z% V6 Q- {6 O# S. v1 W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。( }* z) W, x: `
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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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2 O1 R! J& ` ]9 Z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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* f B8 @+ c2 z. ? D3 l3 K+ |You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.% z# H, W9 x- h" w" n% x d- Q
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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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7 Y5 |* Q9 ?- C" t+ o( u, Y. rHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.3 f6 |. G1 {5 N- |( O
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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。5 G9 j& M) W1 t6 m
6 k, i% b8 R' l- e" v9 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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5 _' X/ R) V/ F& r! c N. D) ITwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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" ~2 i1 v0 m0 m: @/ u, w3 F9 n“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."* F s2 g6 T2 ?( \- L
& e) H8 D L' |, P3 |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”。9 {2 U$ K+ k' \5 w+ g
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