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生命就是小甜饼：
D0 ?3 }. r5 rOne 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.' s e" ~: E/ f3 _) y
$ [2 i8 Z8 Y X& n- B) P+ a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”。* j0 q" N6 i: M6 `2 t
9 h* {% _ ~ k8 f$ BIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.: g4 Y/ e2 o# n5 M) Y$ s
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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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* M! S h% X D8 }6 h2 DSome 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.$ J" p2 k( h/ {* Z& R( a/ A+ [
6 @, [6 b: P0 |$ B, J7 F7 V# Q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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! t" q7 \, ~- Z$ W4 B0 IA 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." g$ E. N, _7 n* ^3 ?0 m
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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。7 M8 J- D( X: @+ ?# m$ F7 p, C, }7 q& Y
# [5 ?% U# n* a, [. g" mWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.1 ^; |% T; i' o* n, a2 D% v0 w
& Y# g2 K+ b) c L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。- J, t" X- t3 b# w1 r; r/ l
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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.5 Q3 k9 C' q/ |8 |6 M
n* E9 ^- T0 ~2 @8 D( P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" s* {# |! w2 i' S0 D
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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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4 `& o6 n$ Q+ C, e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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2 r+ e1 G/ J& g* ?: l, ?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. $ w6 t9 o, E3 ~. O/ X3 J0 R- S
6 |; A# a+ J, U" u) _: V0 ?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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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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! ]* l, Y: t( S! w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.' H( q# x& X a o1 B; G( y5 z5 T
! w Z3 X. ?4 w, z" E& b1 f7 h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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; S- Q, c; Y L2 n2 U, a: }5 zFor 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. "! M' ~/ z0 f/ @3 D
1 f: A A% V$ ?2 u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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/ S, U4 c- U5 h2 Z) ]% TTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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; |1 v3 u8 g1 G) V. ]4 R4 _) o“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。; U8 ^8 F0 X( p9 d! W( A+ M
6 C* K# `1 h1 X# x6 p. ?2 MLife. 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.", b% e* U! `7 S- D% c F- R
! B% P6 d0 a2 [5 {( c9 i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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