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; v) Z* @5 v0 h1 C生命就是小甜饼：
9 R% E6 w m* A$ LOne 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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! p6 c0 D4 o7 v( y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”。& G2 j4 X/ Z. B. T, \3 Y/ x
, P) A% d/ z: dIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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& G2 x. b# o2 N, l; x5 j# z5 E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 ?$ F1 ?. b) E+ |5 j. o& b7 e
# X3 s* b9 O! [% R: X8 g! 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.. x. i8 r4 T" @) K8 u. T7 s
( Y! L8 g3 o& l( ?' y' g8 m6 i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。5 p8 l" r9 q* U; t6 c4 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.1 o2 ~+ k9 l' @# I
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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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/ ]; u( t) | h/ {. G& @, c7 vWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.: U& g1 c! z ], u, b2 x
# M2 @6 \. F [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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$ d* J, J/ c* yBut 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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, o4 H' X/ C' W; Y: i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。0 Z: R& @) j1 u' Q X
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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.5 w! A* i/ w4 e# p4 X- D
5 ]9 e2 A. k+ Q: k5 ^. E; V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。3 l% d% T! V9 N1 w2 b; ~2 m. [
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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. 9 s! O" g: `9 r0 @1 b4 d( f0 E# {- C
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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。* s0 U3 O1 E, Q" H/ n
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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.0 W: w: ^5 ^# x0 S# X/ ]% W3 a
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。$ F% W& y( [8 _+ q
6 e5 k$ n3 b2 v5 U0 ]- dHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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& V$ Q' u. D7 A5 W6 C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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% j9 h% j7 a" m& n0 F- i) ^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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' c0 x* g( B! h1 K- A& q) T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.- K& `( p2 g4 G/ H5 X1 A3 o
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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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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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