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生命就是小甜饼：
/ x) M7 @& L/ v& T" ~: WOne 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.% D! p* i& E$ c8 O
$ J: y- S p4 d/ D/ Z2 N& m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”。' P7 S! b. i6 y% P
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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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& I) F* `6 d2 e, v$ Z1 g- _- c! T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。2 R2 a" D& x8 [
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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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9 u5 p& {2 H) t t* M" }7 B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.9 E8 w- _/ K' P1 A# L
6 _ M3 V4 v' {- h9 {( Z9 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。3 q6 c, ?; L2 y/ r9 K! R6 C
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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.! ^1 O0 _; c+ A
3 N n; n3 t' x6 H% O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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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。
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" t* J) H0 R( | qThe 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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7 u3 ?- e6 N9 ?1 i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. , P! W+ q @( O9 _
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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 L& b. u& Q" K2 E
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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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/ k9 k; D# m, N你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。7 c2 P& z( N; M
- f* Y( ]1 K3 l* q/ O. lHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.9 T9 {9 O$ n6 B% B) C" |9 v7 U
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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。2 o. u3 _6 L( C4 N/ |5 ~0 q( V
- S( N+ G% e) _. Y& C6 y5 |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. "; s9 H+ k+ O7 n+ H/ I
& K. A I) x4 C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。2 S0 v M( u6 R+ _5 `2 J
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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“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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$ K2 H; d9 U& t2 XLife. 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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% u5 |0 E9 s) d* G( {) p4 l5 d7 `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”。2 C5 B, @6 i: `3 d" ]
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