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生命就是小甜饼：
& D/ G/ h! f* qOne 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.! [6 H8 A& n0 _! |& p2 q& X
# M7 R& e( ]/ S4 P* \6 T' U; n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 \3 c& \- {- Q0 d 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。! S( A- J ]- [8 l
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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.( j+ ?& o$ c) R8 D
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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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; ^3 c! F; y8 k* JA 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.$ Z& `7 K6 R( N5 H0 u
f' t8 o; j* z0 z/ M) s& f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.
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" e8 b" k! n4 z, |1 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。/ Y' T2 w8 r8 M p+ l
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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.- F, h; B c% ~) B' L$ I3 |: C
0 Z( l3 A' K# H$ D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。2 G. j- s8 q9 ?3 z
9 n0 N5 b3 H3 M! }" |) Q7 yThe 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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8 a* ?0 T3 t5 `5 J! ?$ c& b# F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。6 \( V* D5 b- K: B
9 |* p$ R7 F2 x" ~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.
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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.* v d) h2 V' F8 @$ l
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。4 p( m8 P2 [+ D! N2 l! B# K( N- R
7 @0 l' x# i: S C9 uHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.$ p/ |4 b2 ?% R1 m
+ P. c: K9 X) K! g L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. "8 H1 _2 R- c' u
4 v1 K# N! }' y& _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。) Q# ]; F. V$ y+ k- o
, e, o; z: c8 d5 j$ K* zTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.4 |# _% Z* u0 ?. U
0 X. M7 n$ W' T6 U6 l0 s“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 M5 _$ ]! ^ i
9 D% C) H/ P% \' 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."1 y6 H/ }. H4 N' o% ]$ _
! G9 [; b. u q: e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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