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生命就是小甜饼：
: `- }. b& \& S3 H6 H5 M9 x8 Y% ]: eOne 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.9 D: R+ m$ K. i
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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”。) v5 l* n9 P- ^# t- ~. W0 \0 g& f
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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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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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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.( R8 [/ i/ F8 C
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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。3 j3 O/ e: v# Y* G5 ?7 d- g
: h& r7 ~4 N1 P: Y. GA 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.- y( P1 A, W* I- H6 w
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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。; L- c8 Y/ s% f# W* w
3 B% a4 v+ Q! {$ E/ NWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.7 _) B5 P* a6 d5 b- S! N5 M
7 S4 ?* ?: N3 j0 {+ I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.
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2 y% X( d: U( M$ r' j' Q/ E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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* A" C# u( H9 Q5 ?8 X) @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。
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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. ! d _# [5 M* ?& y/ r5 g( Y# h
* {5 c6 F3 A+ } e' E7 j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。
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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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( a# N# X3 B& | q- }6 C9 o3 j2 [你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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0 n1 g& N% @( H! s* [Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him." r1 C( T5 s" t- S9 h- ^+ i! _
+ M; D- C" r- I7 [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. "3 |- e# T" L. y; R$ v
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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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?$ D: A/ ~! A3 D, o5 p/ C4 uTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.6 a- C$ S; K4 T! d
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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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# W/ M" R1 |- HLife. 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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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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