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生命就是小甜饼：
Z4 h0 B/ O. M3 v& d9 Y* S- u9 v( 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.
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: }( D3 E- f3 y$ c' a$ 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”。
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.) k# \0 O+ I* @, m! N' F
( V' o/ | O2 F/ o L. O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。: [: J [0 ]1 ?3 ]4 {% @7 h
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Some 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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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。 Z% ?; Q, S: H9 U x
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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.' l3 U6 w1 K' r, \1 P+ |
( y: H# D& a8 M+ B# q( v9 V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。& w. _) d! J% x& o
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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.
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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。
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8 I" c7 S# Z; L0 k! n8 F. e/ d8 {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.: |0 p& [0 M4 j' M5 Z/ p' n
5 u( h( z4 G# i$ g2 k9 d% Z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。' z& G; |4 S- K* h
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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.( E- \ ]6 u0 i5 [8 ~% @
9 x) X# a1 {" H8 U: K& p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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4 P. p! n$ b, e4 t" sYou 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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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。$ ]5 @0 L- z; z% }' U* h
0 w! J+ p1 d: u9 `3 m8 w& @ cYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.7 D. i5 J2 i0 c4 d; m: c4 z
. [3 }* V0 ^7 b2 I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。
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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. " J: E3 K; X- F4 ^
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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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! K" T/ Z) I& q4 n! i6 E+ a# {Two 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。
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5 Z" M/ d# b h( [/ g( gLife. 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."6 Z5 E" k- c+ O- m5 h
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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”。: V1 u2 t' w# c9 \, m$ g& D
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