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生命就是小甜饼：
& L2 S8 ~8 v3 I) ?; {) pOne 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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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”。
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, G6 {0 T, a8 F) u8 `/ C% tIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.1 y' I: f8 w/ e$ H& }# ~1 `) I
; e$ @+ q* H; }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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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./ i% W5 S r$ t R( W S% P- N
( A' A: O* L+ d; M2 e6 r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。6 u. t: h! `# J* R" Q3 a# w
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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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! ]0 y+ z$ K5 A6 j+ 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。/ D' z1 {; W4 ?$ ? w
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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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$ i7 u9 ?8 C/ T& J2 Q8 q* x* m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.
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( K. v. l- Y3 a5 O# l- m/ M) k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。
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! f$ g1 t7 B5 E+ MThe 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。
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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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; Z, j( J6 G, IYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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3 a' X( a0 T* P4 q# y# p% h* E0 I你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。; E* E9 }! ~5 R, J
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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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4 L& a; J. f/ h9 P6 n: |$ \* B* p3 \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。5 u4 z$ m; }7 [$ T+ V; ^) b% q
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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. "$ W0 z9 u" F+ J7 b V. G
% [4 s7 t2 e! F7 n# d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.
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1 R5 D+ ]8 G( z6 Z% N) Q“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."- k+ g X( j. 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”。, T% d$ S! @5 W5 u# |6 I) x
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