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生命就是小甜饼：
0 V& {3 [( f2 s* N% H) ROne 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.5 M8 s1 G& L7 L
! ?5 i4 w" Y) m; {+ i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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If 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。. ]% m' ?: E( W, U6 t& w/ n: ~
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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.$ k- K+ M4 n3 V# F
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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。1 n. Q; R, @) O) O
/ I5 r% k" S) lA 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." C2 _5 z& ?; _' P: F; l( s
0 h! r* o/ y7 c4 s3 B/ U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。* _2 U% G1 H' F8 c9 g0 T$ J
9 v# Q( d5 g- ~# H- V% \3 `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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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.& y* d& r# @6 D% t
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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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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.
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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。9 J$ G8 I4 I0 D. S
4 u" Z1 t S& uYou 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. . B1 x4 J1 z$ h. x: a3 z `$ A
$ h+ L5 Q: Z" w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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* r9 f, _3 ~2 uYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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' Y& _1 l$ }: h: j, O& v0 q2 W. T你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 d1 J( n$ Z; o7 i$ t! b4 I7 D7 `
7 T8 M2 K0 r gHaving 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。- H0 b% H& [5 X& v: n/ z
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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. "6 s8 E; d" @: A0 I5 F; N
% O$ \% _% u' U" ~5 Y' w- m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。5 R6 {4 F6 A4 ~& \+ m
8 _% y# E* f& R3 I5 }Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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" i4 G. }% j( d/ w* k2 n4 b0 ~, W“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。% j! x( n1 _6 W" g) n7 f
4 U9 @6 l3 M% V cLife. 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.". Y1 j# ~4 p) L# m ?7 C" t. u
& ^; H9 ]$ B8 U: ~8 j2 ?/ y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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