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生命就是小甜饼：
]) d; m- f D% c/ mOne 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., Z. ?" b1 K+ I+ K6 U
! l. I5 E9 {/ a% e0 Z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”。' b8 x" t0 B! S- j \
5 ^: ~! q" @ f" c; k v; XIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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% o2 O$ M. b9 k- z. W) D F. |6 Q* H/ y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。/ \3 U8 O: s1 R1 H' l6 n
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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。
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+ e/ u) f6 U' s5 }9 z" w+ ZA 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.9 b: H9 d# C+ D8 v a; p8 B
9 S% o# G. w9 F, T) g3 C: r/ A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。7 l1 v1 t5 \, ^0 a9 _( K
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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.6 E1 u4 `9 l5 s% p) J6 O
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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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$ y( U- S/ n, I3 _! y5 t% c& WBut 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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: z \: _4 m/ E6 {# u9 I3 d! J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。- _+ i4 s$ f) S2 b9 u& S
6 a5 j: W! P4 k. gThe 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。9 g2 F8 o) N/ s7 X* r5 |) g& q& s* p
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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. 6 H) h' P; w7 G+ u; F
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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。$ {0 r% [) ^, I
* ] s: A' h- R% K3 N6 j& e# sYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it., c# }$ A3 ^# s/ ]' V5 ?+ |8 g
; l1 W- m/ b, V8 w# v2 j2 \你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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* |( z" k- {4 R0 q# D. LHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.+ N6 f! |( |8 _* P8 ~5 D& M+ T
5 a& }8 u/ b* L% _2 a! ]. k" u9 G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。8 n4 L% S5 a: Z# U
$ p) f: b: _& ^* RFor 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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. y/ O% j* s0 r: p2 v8 u& ~+ z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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! g+ \6 k& M, q* ~$ q8 ZTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.5 n7 l/ J: T* M" G. d+ f
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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。9 B2 i" Z' t7 T# _4 n
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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."4 r# M; ]+ c! R0 G2 s
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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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