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生命就是小甜饼：
3 \$ Q2 c( \ \! G. XOne 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.! W% V1 u5 J& w
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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”。3 u+ b& h/ ]* F& |5 M' `% ?) I* Z7 ~
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing., H- G4 Q8 s# ~6 |8 h
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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。, J1 I7 q6 W' r- I' M* }- \
& x) O, S5 j& f' o2 FSome 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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5 U9 p& [5 `4 B: e; M& X0 k7 M5 @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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1 @4 V; s { M+ i% I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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When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.' o4 [% c$ d5 n1 g/ k' v6 o
& x5 ?( `+ {$ P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。( N6 q+ P! R+ R J6 f
/ m# V9 ~) t! \ w. E6 yBut 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。( l3 Q0 A4 M; {/ f6 ~; o4 I
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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.
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/ O( R& W8 q4 n- m9 i) Q9 x0 d# u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 \8 K! _# a) }5 _# }
W. P: f% g$ p! o' t! ^* EYou 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. 8 q1 y9 l! X) z. e+ s1 N' ~, O
* S' Y) Z; g: X9 N2 Z% i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。( a. }7 A- Q! D
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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.+ h9 a# O' t# d+ `
9 b( }' @- @' S& Y你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.6 U8 t5 @) [9 e @/ _1 q
2 |9 E1 I6 B) A. j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。/ O) l- n4 b; I; }0 L( m8 k
. X! k/ ^& {9 [7 @# ^, HFor 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. "" X+ \2 U% y1 {
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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。% @3 w5 v5 K' s5 ~- Y) d$ H* T4 D$ W
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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7 F8 e7 p: u1 b+ m“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。4 T% U7 S) [8 X `6 W, q- _7 o
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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."& j" F& d" k; V* \( N# ^. `8 d6 Z/ a8 C
5 Z( j2 L' Y" u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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