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生命就是小甜饼：
$ i0 d- I6 |/ y& tOne 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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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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4 k$ Z7 p: H: G" w/ ZIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.! J$ x* C& i1 J. f0 n# j$ b
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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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. B8 J4 T3 C' M. o5 T: ^' }: bSome 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.* `3 Z D. W o6 c, q- q% O) K
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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。
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& b9 L* \2 M$ ~+ i4 Y# c, d3 n8 wA 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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9 z( y% O$ u! `4 H8 d0 s, u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。
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3 w5 R& k% u4 \( h" R2 ?When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.6 T5 ]: U6 t) K/ N* j$ f, i/ w
3 \( S( |8 B; 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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% i0 C. }# J! h" Z) Y9 e, |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。8 A6 @, j$ O' y
: q" S A% Q- IThe 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.) P( L1 i# Z$ Q
! x/ q/ j0 m0 \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: l9 v1 r5 m4 _: B% ?
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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。
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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.2 a2 C0 ~: a$ T1 E- E) H
! P- H3 l* `6 r1 U你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。! S1 @) z( m1 Z; D# b- s; P% H% E0 H
3 @8 U+ J& S5 p) b1 _: LHaving 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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. G+ v3 U* Q" b1 X( bFor 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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) J1 ~( X( w, X8 T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。1 v) f7 I6 y/ f" K E7 o
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.1 m) S5 P. H! }
+ |$ E+ o* J5 ?6 z/ `“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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1 y: J" ~/ z) e) R/ l( v# z1 n, TLife. 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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6 @- X+ P1 ?$ A' b# j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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