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" l) K; d8 O! T [% ?" ^生命就是小甜饼：
' @/ {4 \1 @0 I: k4 a& ~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., ?7 N3 \- { \- L" T
- ]1 W4 ?1 H2 h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 p7 O) o6 q% ?/ R" n6 a6 c* F$ P
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.8 ` e) z' P" d v" G
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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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+ n3 k t4 v0 g& b8 CSome 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.) @* S8 T. f$ x
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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。" ^; P6 G8 D7 b$ n8 S9 z1 Z: l
9 J9 g1 T6 _8 ]4 F/ zA 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。0 W3 y7 P4 W* r/ K4 P4 B7 b
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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.( v u5 p/ c6 v# s% f
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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。& z" _8 z9 J* 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.
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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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/ m; b ~* g% A6 |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。5 @* d- M0 I- K/ b Q
$ V& z5 X4 _7 vYou 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. * n) f- o) n" y, h/ h* B3 y+ ?
# k8 v) q6 T% w. N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。8 c) [0 B3 r- F- p' Z
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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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6 O7 `+ W' S C: s你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。3 a% i8 w- A- q/ P8 v% l
' _3 d( ~, V6 G0 B% p4 ~4 L [& BHaving 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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K# ~7 `, \- U7 L4 i9 H7 Y5 YFor 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. "% l+ c. r& V/ M& U6 P2 @
" |5 U% z; Q* j1 B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。, T9 b3 I4 C X7 }3 [( P5 y
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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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' U# c' e: i9 G1 e& N6 Q: D“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."+ e/ i* t. m5 y. G/ m
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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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