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生命就是小甜饼：
! c) R. h9 B H* x# T0 _8 o4 R: NOne 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.$ i5 o* B4 F& w9 Y# P7 H! h2 l, x
1 I6 z! P& {7 N" U0 R( M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”。% y1 @9 b( `6 o+ E1 N( u
9 w) T0 @0 c4 v+ tIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.2 c Y _, _9 A4 o
* T/ [% ~0 A v" F5 g5 k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; Y- f/ @1 k
% Q- Z/ i- n0 JSome 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.# ]5 @: [; t# 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。# R" p j) j* F; ]1 S
7 w8 o G( n+ ]" H% q% R2 d8 Z. xA 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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3 c9 C9 f* ~- p: a$ U4 K2 \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。- N# ^0 G- y! E g! C/ G
. d6 ?6 O( {1 iWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.6 f3 R! k6 U e
8 \# H- g# L$ d9 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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+ O3 c. w. l6 ^6 Y3 X' 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.' H& Q) ?( x v2 D
: W. s6 [+ e5 N0 r9 L. 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。; i$ v/ ^$ u0 @1 W- J
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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.1 A% [: [- ~7 H( D) ~ H2 w
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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。
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}! o }/ \, [* l: Y# p! OYou 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. 7 A4 I3 I W2 U% d1 U* A
* a) c5 w) e4 _2 Z Y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。( n$ M. ^0 s) y
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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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: N3 H( c9 _& x! B) g6 X }0 O你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。: F) @6 D' G1 r2 t) Q9 x0 _+ B
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.& p& K7 W! _3 q* n( K
1 ]+ s6 Y5 g( E; {5 e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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# L# N6 u& m3 e# u+ |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。* ^) c! R- D p. _' [
; T7 W$ ^2 `9 v- E: U9 T) h JTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.3 [: _8 e1 j' D! h 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。7 S0 l0 Z" K7 p* l
5 Y3 [; M0 g/ G g, a' Z; ?/ O, 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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+ y1 N9 w) N$ ]. z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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