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生命就是小甜饼：
: k4 I5 [7 m ^' 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.. g y4 D; K ^* W) L' F( Q
5 M$ k7 U) O Z6 Y" R! Q: V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”。+ ~# P# v, p: ^! X u8 m: u
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.; W! |* X9 p- g! M4 i5 l
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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。: w$ ^2 k9 \3 I: M/ R% e
* g! h# ?+ |" C/ k7 [, V. t% ^9 MSome 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. ]8 c$ [8 e1 X" m6 E/ E
* `0 ]9 R$ Q$ n% U% x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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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.
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. r- r3 g8 z3 m5 ]/ r& x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。) |; q/ i* Z+ Y4 w
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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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1 n3 ?( c- c* T6 T b8 t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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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.# f3 U9 u9 L3 N( G
) I" Z8 ?+ [6 K; ]& Z) y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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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.+ L- L+ P6 ^7 e- J: |/ L9 K
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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 C) ^, D" `- d0 F2 x: `! W
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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.
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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。+ ?4 A Q# T' z E
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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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! j% F( H% X9 K# y$ p0 m你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。5 H4 A3 Z! |+ e3 V* s9 U7 h
# ~* B% X8 F9 {1 D) SHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.* R3 t& P, N+ `' `
; n& x" |8 p4 U. E5 x! M3 }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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! X9 `8 l0 p0 p( t- vFor 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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# A* A& i0 l# y [: N+ c3 \0 C3 ^# d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。. G" J5 c7 i- f5 V ]" }
, T1 B, t0 f* l* v% fTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.) Y/ V5 @0 \+ V3 H+ q/ M
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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."% f+ I9 `6 D5 f3 d H Q
/ c! o9 c5 r* t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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