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% B2 L; s5 _9 l& C生命就是小甜饼：
3 x7 }! n) @) |* @) oOne 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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- h4 M, h; G4 I ]( ?- _ \. e/ 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”。2 O* y6 M+ Y# w3 s( ~. B4 f
o* t) y, o% \! m1 G8 GIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.$ @ v$ T( }$ z2 K
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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。
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9 N# L3 A/ |; a/ m: r. w1 u# uSome 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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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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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。* A$ x; R- m6 S& p
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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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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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* W5 q1 {6 r4 m+ K1 EBut 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。5 @- J& Q7 Y5 M) ~1 X9 U
+ l8 v( f) R; ^* wThe 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。! } t4 M7 u; I5 h+ a
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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.
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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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' @# ~+ j/ x$ q% \% IYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.$ P5 i7 k2 s& P+ y
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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# @$ W) T* P2 `) r' U8 `* d* mHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.1 U. m; J, i9 C; Y$ X
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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。; m9 g7 L$ Z% u6 m5 {5 I9 T
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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. "( I8 u+ j* H5 J, l2 W7 j
/ A( `- ~. R( a7 u& K6 ]5 \) r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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' @2 R, q7 b9 _' c Y5 s! iTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.( [ x l: B8 j* ?, y0 n @
q8 `' e. p2 {2 y. 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。
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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."! f3 _6 @1 X( x6 F. _3 M5 o7 m! C6 a
9 h. U7 g5 e2 I9 C5 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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