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生命就是小甜饼：
; r2 w4 Y" j _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.) C( v" J! x! J
8 n: q- z+ m; r! a. H- t, B4 }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”。8 M5 L& L$ ]! _! c
* Y5 D+ m b+ r& e/ fIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.' _- ~5 A# \9 y, S2 I; |
! b2 Y7 B9 k6 C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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p/ S2 [9 i0 u9 Z8 t/ e( i& s' C" ~6 ]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.5 `% M7 H B. P8 @! m
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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。6 O" P: ?+ t/ @
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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./ Y. o( A L4 V1 I& A
- z% F1 v( j/ e! s* z* n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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When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.) i( Q" n J1 V, C4 x
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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。5 w. e, G4 w3 v( J5 H5 Q2 M$ f P
2 i r, W; q9 W* B+ TBut 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。: v. I# [0 r) b0 y$ ^, }' A! l
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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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9 y/ m ~; o6 @! N! O9 j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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* x! ]' g+ \+ V O4 g AYou 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. + ` g1 a m1 e% p$ C# ~
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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。
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7 G+ @0 b( Q. u# }1 GYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.9 z9 F5 G4 Q5 J, O
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。! x1 v* q' J' x) Y3 }
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.# r% I$ D" p* F8 \" C* E
' g* O0 [8 J" o9 i u2 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。. e/ e& e! R+ i
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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. "( q5 h6 Z: ~1 N1 z; ?
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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。/ \% `$ [1 D# Z% D# ?
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.7 h4 Z) L0 O8 q, w5 M* W
) B. z& L# W/ r$ ~“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."
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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”。) @' {) E$ [# ?' _# H) N9 q: \
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