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生命就是小甜饼：
) P$ R* ]8 C% _3 y* AOne 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.3 p' }+ E7 M/ B$ O
$ h% I8 P' Z1 W; j8 S+ D' ?$ P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”。4 Y5 g( o3 S$ V. m9 `# f
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.4 x$ Y, O1 t Z$ c# E( l8 B4 ~- ^, _
7 y9 f% d! G1 e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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1 {$ K0 p; R2 N- QSome 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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* H+ u5 J p. F5 [4 F4 n2 d& l. 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.
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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。
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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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+ \" |' M" g2 o o9 E* @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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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.4 N: N4 [/ T- e3 r+ X9 K/ P
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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。9 N6 r' q$ ?* o5 l9 u& F" D0 b T$ e
, Q2 g: b' K4 g2 s0 L: @- eThe 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.( V* e, ~% ^5 R" @ O
: I; c: }* l' ?+ s4 `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。0 [5 G2 M+ j& O- Z* {2 t
' T" _7 n4 y. z0 C' PYou 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. 7 {; W3 J7 H6 W
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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。+ x$ C8 d% b" o7 z
3 @$ [! W0 O5 n6 HYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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8 R- u% w1 [5 q; }- P你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。1 E. v+ @2 a% j
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.% ]9 `# Q" I) b0 A
& q. f6 N9 P4 O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。+ G T& V% a+ {
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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. "
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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。
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.0 ]' M4 \, i- |7 g" k
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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。
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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."
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. c: v* j# y/ V1 ^1 f7 [3 c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”。' b0 ~+ g5 F2 m8 p0 ^- n- Z/ T
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