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生命就是小甜饼：
~+ F0 O' H1 B+ M6 R F% n& Y" sOne 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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9 G8 U M L# h4 o: d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”。; ?) J7 `* Q U( T* |1 s( a; w
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.4 r" S6 _& N0 c$ k- c' t
: i: f$ |$ I5 _1 h* H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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; \* J7 `, T5 O- D% c" l. j5 xSome 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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& u8 u: s% }8 J4 L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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+ h$ @7 I& N7 uA 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./ U- n8 W! Z7 W. i2 E- m
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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。3 @, ?1 Y1 ?) h' |8 Y
+ W% l- D" Q; ]$ O# T) j; G/ pWhen 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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0 M, A3 e0 u4 W" Y5 @0 r) K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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6 ]& y7 y8 ~6 _3 {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。+ U- k. Z9 a: V7 @/ a. x O+ b
0 e- t: J: |# SThe 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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" [ b; `: F# S3 j0 Q+ g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。, q! r4 c" o7 V* K
& G/ K, I. V6 s3 iYou 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。, K1 a( |- ]6 M& ^
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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.- B% M4 E9 C2 d& v! v' i2 ~
; N9 P5 q( s/ q- r# Z, J5 i你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。& o% q" P, k/ O
- x; ]: ~. D% ]( o. G/ t$ S, LHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.+ T) p( A0 t( u7 y: H
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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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! R3 q4 c# B& r kFor 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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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。( W1 c/ A/ X8 K
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.8 S3 `. Q4 c) ]# _( P
" A3 [' T% w, Z; i“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."7 S5 S5 W& S |* K
Q+ A9 B1 \6 K0 m" A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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