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生命就是小甜饼：
: S! U8 s+ i4 d+ A* K1 ?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.) J5 {7 G2 i* ^; m$ d& ]5 s0 M! G& R
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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”。- g5 U0 ]9 p: x* l
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing." e# i; i- |) ^
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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。
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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.% y8 k3 b# q% E4 m e* } q- d
( y; E6 f3 n4 z- o. K8 V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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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.- S. }. V) n+ T* S! l$ B
/ p3 r! s: Z. w/ c" c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.9 ~) |) s) p- n7 d) L
* g" O. Z( M- T# I' {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。: X& [( M$ k) E- {; {' n
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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.. O& F% `0 {6 M7 |) r$ k' j" U1 e B
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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。# ]- g: C) H& o8 \( ]4 L6 w2 M* }
) ^$ \4 @; i% U! ^6 d2 ]; B" m( vThe 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。0 V$ H' M5 k$ H
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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. ; f/ P2 d6 ], L
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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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0 g, J+ b, ]1 i# RYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.2 \. x S) O r; @) N
( X! }. S5 @* L6 C你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.3 K7 H; _( q, m- x& B! U
" w2 S3 J6 Y4 N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。
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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. "
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/ {) W# C. i7 T5 e' _5 m- Y$ k& r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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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.' R8 v i1 s1 f C W8 Q
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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。3 j1 ?; W, Z2 M* f8 T# t
" B2 F9 E: z: h; Q3 b o: NLife. 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."1 E( {/ k8 K7 s% t0 W
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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”。3 |+ A0 W: u0 N
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