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生命就是小甜饼：
y; a! Y$ F- G* T9 S) POne 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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6 f+ F$ q- y6 {5 }8 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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g- R$ a" }% a, [8 D1 @If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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/ Y( V5 k {$ B7 q# v3 T+ c/ q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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. v, s) M8 f% G6 aSome 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.7 D- t5 B6 b0 i: {& o
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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。
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9 X7 q3 q) _( p9 l3 g3 V1 y6 TA 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.1 [8 K1 b7 t% T: f
9 T: y+ }5 s- W) R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。. x' P: R0 n( k7 a4 W) F
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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.
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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。1 i3 T n6 v3 Q' D. c' p7 W$ V
- E& E; W6 ^+ a9 s7 W j: }1 w" G8 @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/ c5 _3 b ]! g( S. W/ M
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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。* q1 B/ I. v4 A! k: Y
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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.% R0 Q& g* {- H7 ^$ g" i
6 H( m3 s* C/ ]8 N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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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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, a+ b7 Q8 A6 O. U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。/ l8 k; w) |8 `
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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.
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& N1 i4 r; e1 R! b你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。* H* u5 `3 N+ V0 P" }
% b7 v# E2 D3 P$ H1 r5 DHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.8 B4 C" ~/ S( B
5 d$ G x7 A3 D) y/ p5 k F8 b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。( k% c; d2 ^% [
2 q! t* P" A5 {3 h! S( M0 AFor 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. "$ o U4 b, I! v* N& c4 y @: Q0 W
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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。
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9 q+ W: y' b9 m6 ^9 u$ YTwo 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。 f& k6 j0 h$ ?1 g% N( U
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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.") p2 T( [6 L; I2 g
; e/ t0 x* N$ C; P/ q$ e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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