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生命就是小甜饼：
" G, b T; o5 {0 D# vOne 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.+ @+ b8 I- T" W4 M
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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”。8 ~; c% L: Y9 {0 V% |! n
" w( ?0 _1 _9 ?) Z) U. ZIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.& D: P# B& i# o
0 {3 N U( @' a% r' z% `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.
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0 a$ k& R8 n& _( Q5 m$ i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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, L& h7 W; x6 j0 S5 RA 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.
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6 B* L: e3 `! x% j4 e$ `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。* u5 L4 D1 h: e$ O6 L4 k. l p3 |0 P
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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.+ E3 Q, A4 t3 z
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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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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.
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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。8 t6 i3 W+ W: p. R5 ^ z: K
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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.+ @% P2 ^- c0 r( V; V- ]
& C% t5 g; e: v! w, w5 O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。) j; F3 P; v# k h& k: ]0 T. i
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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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* k n: B4 x! [; |: E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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# t, P5 T( a7 r) S/ D H3 c- }; v% A2 lYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.. U p$ d" ]" d- f+ ^" R
0 t8 n- P% N3 R; |你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。1 a1 y* k, q9 x
$ F y, D' ~1 X' y5 @Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.* i2 p% P2 @! s6 f7 O' n6 v
* ]7 O; v N' q. Z7 t K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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# V- G( E! }4 xFor 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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9 S8 W$ z0 F9 g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 }" j9 ^# s' O$ Q3 @, [* G$ n1 _
: q/ s# c/ q( a: u! ]. RTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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1 {+ I8 Z2 k& ~; D" U“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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7 B1 o2 l, ~* P) S# K7 ZLife. 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."/ u2 M1 Q8 |& B2 D
- s L7 T# L& d% D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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