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生命就是小甜饼：
) L6 M2 ~% |! ^: `( {+ j! rOne 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.7 }- c! d: j* _
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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”。# O6 L7 L/ T- F7 y5 o q+ w/ l
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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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7 }9 j% G4 u7 K$ E2 S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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5 v0 {, V/ U' @: c6 Q" qSome 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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: ^/ l' X" N) D: w0 k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。& Y- _: U* q! `4 C( \+ Y+ E
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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.
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: f& ^6 i" f c. C4 T$ a" @* i) p. T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。; }! s8 E# G1 `6 [8 h% I6 p
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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.$ Z: f6 P4 X/ d
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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。9 x Z5 [# y' `) C7 N
% V: L, a0 j S. n3 e1 @4 oBut 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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0 T4 E! J) C$ J5 s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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& v2 Y3 l3 e' c' G A* eThe 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.. `6 V; V& c2 x; h0 `4 ]
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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。. n. j2 |* d3 _8 F
# d- [) m2 _ m9 LYou 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. . R" K) r, e/ O) \
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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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You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.# s0 u) b8 @8 p' @/ w- ]
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; \3 o8 x0 Z8 |7 jHaving 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。
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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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3 j2 b% I) Z) v( @8 F4 n' XTwo 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。$ i0 x! R! g ?9 ~) \" T( E5 q
/ |4 n6 d8 R) PLife. 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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% j8 q0 P4 V! i; I6 D9 a5 V' A5 o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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