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生命就是小甜饼：
! \0 B* K5 D3 X, I& P( d! M* lOne 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. a: a! r x, _& ^ L
% N' X+ }7 X v; {7 ` c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”。- k( I. z% [1 h3 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。' b/ h. u& O& ]" U" ]
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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。2 Q! e) A5 R- p: E% Y9 }
3 J D3 W* O. [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., M- J' F3 u1 ]- [3 m( r
+ X8 c: T# C) \( H4 r% M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。$ r: z% ^7 ]8 d# O! K" ^+ [& S0 e
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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.* H! V) b# {* }7 ~2 p& B' Z
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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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' v' ?5 c8 T5 a4 [ zBut 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.# Z6 R" ~ J% M z; i M* S
+ I5 l/ s" X& E. ?! |5 ] y: L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。9 a" Q" W; r: E7 G5 `7 k, g& U
& V4 h" S! c4 B) t* vThe 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.5 V* i5 r9 J5 b2 O
1 V" M4 E! `% ~7 k* D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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, F: Q: I! E0 G. j. [: J/ tYou 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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7 ]! B% M: h4 q' ?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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) K# R0 w% B& |( m, Z; I- n( EYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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! |$ C. a X( ?. j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.
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& Y- f( O& e* W7 E" ~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. "5 ]3 ]" }* O \; `# O, X+ ]
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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。8 L3 ^3 s% `/ J
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.4 G2 M' m Q- b" ? w2 `
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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。8 _1 @7 ~- |/ @0 D& ^4 j
5 s5 [( M* J# JLife. 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."% b* u9 b3 w# i% q {) I' p9 u! k5 I
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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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