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生命就是小甜饼：
1 w" m: z0 c2 a" iOne 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.% ?- D, e; y& F" F" v: Y% t1 @
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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”。
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1 m! y" G$ k. t9 RIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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& I9 Y- a# s( w( K/ Y$ x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.# Q7 G( Y% S+ @4 t9 w
; h+ F+ E% U! v* z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。5 ]4 q7 ^0 A }/ n- ~. \* Y
: O$ K% A4 H0 Y% aA 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. H3 D0 B& v9 _
" P% V" N: W7 y' W( f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。- q+ {2 |, \" d# L
1 s& @; x4 a2 N5 N; KWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.# C, |2 C. m, L E! b" F2 J# 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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, L. g% X8 w5 U) {$ H% F8 UBut 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.4 S5 [$ l K2 [. C2 ?4 x
& j' i X& R* t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。
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; z, ]- N0 r+ o4 o( G' [$ qYou 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。$ \2 h! U# ]8 |; o S
" H5 Y0 F: X: P% Y1 A: Q2 g* qYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it., ]! Y5 O4 m6 f/ D+ g$ u6 I! T
. ^" n2 }, A6 \4 O! p1 G你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。! x9 y3 G" G( S0 m
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.+ E+ f* j7 s* w% |( H, W
( ]! g" v, S& ^2 |- k" v4 g2 e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。& M. o1 j8 J7 `1 q
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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. "- z8 q8 c8 d' g6 O: j2 v6 D
6 T* G6 Z l6 {% r; d5 f% _( x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。2 c' p* `& T5 b8 \: E
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.% b7 R K4 m4 a% D' l+ k
2 _; x: y+ l1 Q7 g; `; q; 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。# L& |) p, z2 ~4 X
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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”。- k1 ^, p6 X# D# W0 i0 Z2 x, [7 C
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