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生命就是小甜饼：
: a/ l; e! W8 K8 m/ c) 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.
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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”。2 Y2 \1 |% C' P* k" S6 T3 l
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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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1 S2 U- n% ?! _! M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.8 D: i6 H5 J8 m2 z: p
6 {2 B$ v" `2 t. g" y1 K( ^# H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。+ T) A8 G, v. k
) z# Z' Q8 \, w0 }4 WA 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。3 `, x4 j6 {5 q) v4 |. [9 G
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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.4 f& H2 t$ _ |
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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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$ F2 t% Q* D- e5 kBut 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.2 i: {5 x0 s G- ^- k2 q
$ N0 j' d: O. a7 K# k1 I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 y8 p8 w! {: e" m. r! v" H* m, c
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The 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.( @1 ~5 z' p6 T' q
7 v6 u" o# L |2 q2 h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。* L$ R, Z! }& g8 ^
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You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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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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( {4 g% x* [2 ]0 D2 u4 \Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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) g; \% a. Q, ~' x J- H" Y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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0 x; [4 [( s& Z- B& {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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+ s7 \4 ]1 @- e" W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。( O& y5 `& B0 E9 z w3 e
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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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( {' H' H8 p% O) [- v% U“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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- Q, m% p- N: l; H m( z8 T# o1 RLife. 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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2 c. W' b4 q2 f$ l0 |4 t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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