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生命就是小甜饼：
4 I" v( F, V7 E0 z P6 YOne 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. Z3 [7 D# K8 Q# y' j
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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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+ l! s9 }* v* [' h& vIf 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。7 g$ p2 n8 Q" F' J
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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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) }- {) t, N( Q: P2 D( p9 G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.- ]" X" u( D. B: z- M
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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。0 j( b9 ?# x9 E( t- z0 H4 h/ ]
& ?! m, W9 j; b) R' `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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& T" e( M; a0 ]# G1 z! O6 \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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, ] b* @ q( }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.5 h$ F$ n1 q& `- o* R+ j
% I1 K$ S; g+ ]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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" u6 _) k0 o( C% N2 P TThe 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 l- B9 v- _9 l8 r; p3 E7 D
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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。/ J; ~7 m- H! v6 T2 m) [/ r
5 X) X9 }* @" D# Z3 \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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/ R% S1 Q; x2 h( j% r% ^6 }- ?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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0 C2 a% \' J7 {4 r1 c+ [9 [You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.; A, j% M; X4 _* j* e! y, D9 a2 O
/ F& I- x* t! ]+ v! Q, v; N6 d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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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. ": _# X. J# {( \# t8 V1 e. Z7 ^! D
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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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- N9 {) v: O: i2 U1 x7 V- `Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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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。3 q4 [" T" k) ^% g0 I- S
6 u( ?8 Q6 N. i) S$ uLife. 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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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”。: \/ M8 l, |* t1 f0 {$ A
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