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生命就是小甜饼：* q- M" Z+ J; w0 }* ^" H1 X, u
One 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.; H6 @1 x( g8 p4 F9 W. B5 R
8 t! B" Q* v9 w) O% G2 t; {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”。5 U3 g6 A; ~9 O2 V Q' [6 `3 C
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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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5 D+ R' [4 p4 {6 ^4 a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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, ^/ s0 v5 y' b/ R: Z& G2 xSome 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 V7 d4 X- {8 _, t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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* Q/ Q/ K1 x& z9 [. R8 s! o9 rA 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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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。( M" M/ U3 G5 z- C) T, U8 K* o# [
+ P6 q. @# F- jWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.5 Y; x7 n) Q: {6 Z3 \
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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。; M) {! O! d$ G3 R& V- Z
! z4 p; R6 b% S) J U6 WBut 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.' \5 R" E Y5 R$ r* c2 w% a
. b3 u% T* Q/ r$ g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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$ I& M0 J* d- x1 j/ A1 K8 AThe 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.$ z' S4 L' F1 i, {% ^# \
# T9 h, @7 t+ O7 j# u0 x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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2 m1 l5 s& d, i9 tYou 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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* R/ _5 `2 ~5 j, Z$ o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。" z% B- U3 P5 e5 I
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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。
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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。7 V/ }! w1 Q( g
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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. "8 k/ G& m+ h! t! y7 L; i* L" K' q
2 l3 U7 u6 n8 }+ Z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。7 v& }% j x- N* d- F
$ U" L ~7 X9 l8 Q% g1 tTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.- k: U% {: g7 f
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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。; i8 ^& {+ I$ x1 n3 c% ?8 [
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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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D5 P' ?% r( |. b( ]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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