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生命就是小甜饼：
9 s' x/ S4 k# H$ aOne 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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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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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.6 M3 J. J" ?# `- L( N" N9 o
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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。1 {% b- ~2 i) ?8 O
% O5 L; [4 s6 U) P- pSome 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.- U- x! x6 z. c6 F1 U
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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。3 w7 N8 B$ Q c9 l
( ^2 j7 F1 t3 bA 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.( f- n2 I1 i, ~3 Y
; J9 r: W8 D" J' \- ]+ }% E8 j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。) s4 A8 b0 ^: @/ s4 U% ]: \/ y; T- v
$ A& P( {* m4 p; |# H% PWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.% q. t p2 [ l& A. ^1 g# d
1 V' W0 h* |- ?1 J9 ^- t7 W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。* Q! r4 Z' C' t. J# S- x4 u) F; x
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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./ J/ ^0 v0 m# k+ ?
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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。9 ~- B7 k& ~$ K) a* 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.6 }2 ]: Z7 \3 n ^" n! H. ?
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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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3 C' x6 f' ?/ |& q2 N' EYou 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. - ~- R) a9 [; T* o4 O' l" K7 g
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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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/ w4 T, S# [: d2 ~ H! t! cYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it." _6 m+ E9 `4 J' {" x
4 j5 I }" H# R( e, v: Z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.* x5 R7 r/ q, I& s' f( q6 E" D& N
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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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' ~9 V! i, c' Y6 ~: [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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+ A8 z9 `& F% m. w- J& l! J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 X4 v# N- j5 T; K; A, t
6 Q5 J' ?4 j- O$ i; jTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.( Q5 e9 \5 |, H# R5 B, f
) p- s+ F& ~+ B5 P3 A |# A- }“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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0 P3 P' `( m/ v0 }. O: }$ uLife. 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”。
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