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生命就是小甜饼：
. T1 z/ q- h8 K( v: J* dOne 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.& a- K7 `( u0 s: m( ]% G
8 Z v6 Q8 I6 u- a K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.; a9 s% o* n4 j& ]' ~* `7 q8 h
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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。* ]8 \. p6 l: l3 v
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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.# s' F9 A; ~* r- ]0 P) m0 H
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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。2 \) t. C. J( a( {9 V+ X" t
' C; @1 B2 q; t3 q0 Z2 nA 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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" |5 ~; V' D7 S: D; [8 \5 [$ CWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.; e- J' m6 {& a) X% `
' {0 h2 k* T7 T9 M: U) |( b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。6 ?2 Z3 L/ U$ K0 t2 a0 j$ T8 r
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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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1 R7 G6 @$ {* }, _" ]9 m/ l" F5 e& w$ 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。
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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。4 G) O# v5 C, o/ U! k. R
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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。* Q2 N o1 p' K* Y5 D4 N( p* @
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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." ~, x- n" h% G. B1 K
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。% T. |2 L1 L6 L4 S- W. c
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.2 t/ f$ D$ e2 {5 E+ S5 ]) n0 ]0 D8 O
- W1 a2 F/ M! e* t- k* x# B% _: j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。 V, d) o- [' X# Y+ ^6 Y7 g
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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. "5 |( n* N& q0 l* Q8 O% g
- o" U8 y4 n8 p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。7 N& ]& f$ R6 B. w
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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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“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."' |! c: c( D( p ^! }$ e3 A
# v" L/ i, K6 [. ?+ }0 A) E: 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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