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7 b, N! u8 n0 ]; ^生命就是小甜饼：
. E+ [) P# s+ B! Y3 T B. S" KOne 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." j) s6 K# D2 r0 Z
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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。
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) F, i# u( u3 y5 S/ ^9 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.
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- p& m3 Z D; Y9 v- Y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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6 @- h9 s r, k7 vA 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.& o4 s* B3 ~; e3 q) b' b6 X5 [
- q4 @/ J: z. p. G$ a* @9 {- X8 W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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: G3 v' E+ [0 j* e2 _6 @3 XWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy./ ^. k3 _( L. n0 S) W6 \6 @2 X
5 ^1 E: d5 f2 {2 ~$ Y& Y# D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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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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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。/ C" w2 j" \. W V% ?/ q% A) {) ^
8 E6 ?, j4 t) P& eYou 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. % A, Q* O& G' g, K
F8 C, C$ E& v( V, p; @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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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。( {$ `# D; e6 V9 d: @
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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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+ K! W6 d% l/ s, r* S) [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。& l. u; R6 V- u b7 `
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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. "; `' A& w, E4 p- J
$ o% F) T/ Q9 g+ E# G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。% P7 j( N6 C' G- O# T4 z5 }; {
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.; V8 y9 X. A! [0 r$ ^5 z
$ x' p9 |2 x" m* ?, w5 k“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 h2 [6 i% b5 [6 r k' K
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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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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”。
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