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生命就是小甜饼：
. ?( D7 M& q3 u! K7 W! G; u) ^One 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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# C, r8 W. s5 Y( {- B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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7 {4 g2 B9 u" Y. MIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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3 H) L$ e+ Z5 s- ~3 s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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% x9 M! O+ b( HSome 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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8 J/ k9 j* b3 d2 H! Z, ~6 w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。* f8 P5 V! Z9 N T P# z0 w
- s/ h/ d7 n" U: j. 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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" D0 ?6 U1 Y( P3 f5 V( f- ]0 {When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.% Q7 L/ o2 [! B$ `7 \, }& B
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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。: n; Z/ g: m: m* B* ?
0 n u& u; i0 w1 }/ [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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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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% w! x; y7 O. l* V$ a, BThe 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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; U6 w; t! N% L1 N$ t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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K" f! p# y g: t4 N; H& BYou 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。' {* E; i' F. F. v" v, ~
3 [* [2 y( \7 ^You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it./ e( Q$ N4 r( c
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。3 ^9 x1 Y' Z1 }* z# D% ~
7 Q. c/ T' q$ T6 H) \! ~Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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" M J- N3 {" z: t' m" S9 R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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' R' l% z( L3 D* N( \9 GFor 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. "6 e& |* w' x5 [; n
' P) o. ^. h* F, K. d3 ]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。% P9 B1 r$ A2 [
; u: U0 F6 j: W0 \6 k# aTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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& ~) \5 B3 l- y* l$ y8 G8 _“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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. Z( V) G+ ]# OLife. 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.") m; s/ k- C2 Y! k1 Z/ Q
1 y4 k" e$ p9 v3 A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”。/ u. O$ @2 n/ P1 Q8 @
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