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生命就是小甜饼：
& f$ D2 l' n; K9 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.: X3 C* J0 {' y7 t0 |
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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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. q6 R$ i8 O1 F8 I2 Y* i& NIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. c6 |' e( D/ h4 h$ j# w, O8 n
0 j% }% r# o" A$ o' _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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& G% s; H e! S* E4 F0 |6 ZSome 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.' o- D6 d$ Q2 H$ l5 n
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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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; f" B* ]/ J0 ], {: u" ~" `6 IA 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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% f/ O# `: L5 ~5 o! H; d [) [; }( ?9 B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。8 Q- f6 [) |: N0 t7 Q& ?
; l; u0 S: A! m" wWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy." M3 t% T( k+ E) g! ]3 H
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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。7 x& _0 [) e3 H$ p Y& ^
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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.& h6 N% E; a+ @' V% {( Y' k$ T3 ]
6 u) B3 A8 t2 C' O: r, |5 m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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: o2 c# J' P3 v6 J9 uThe 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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0 K+ C% ~# j& f2 @4 K" M. z8 I& U5 `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。
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' Q2 h. x2 x7 | S T7 N, ?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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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。, G! I: i- Y: l' R
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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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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。% b% O$ Q; }* R6 \+ R0 J7 U9 P! r6 L
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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。
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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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* a }8 T! i* Y9 S1 J“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。" K) }4 J9 M! j& V
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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."
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. p. }' t4 a7 O/ B" H0 ^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”。6 w/ s5 @/ o% y0 S) g4 V& {
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