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生命就是小甜饼：
% \/ a3 E2 L# G1 COne 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.+ H1 a) U7 s+ I! i( e2 K6 [
2 _" R9 `; z# m2 L" [. q7 `. u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.
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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.
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4 p5 s1 \4 y* ?+ Q( d2 w1 m$ B* J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。. W( @' p. B. l1 S
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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.$ X d. r- K# f$ j% \ o: N+ Q8 ~6 ~
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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。1 y. w- x, h! F5 |
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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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7 V) c& c- Q: ]" U0 }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。4 J: H# v' V( ?
* H/ \9 z8 @* T' J: G8 e6 ABut 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.+ W8 r' n: f$ o0 v3 X6 |! Q
3 e7 k+ ?, @$ b7 T. m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。; R8 M8 |5 V* k: L$ x8 ]4 q( }4 v
6 x+ d* o' s5 K1 p9 _' H) W0 v0 m. pThe 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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" R' [& y% M4 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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+ t6 \- G+ B9 v+ f( P" v! A2 XYou 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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& ], f H$ A. W+ }, ?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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% T6 h \2 S" f1 }' n2 jYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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1 [4 R: _: A6 x) r3 g* Y! @你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。# D( g- W- o; V/ S% E
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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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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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. "4 x/ O [$ T' c, l, s
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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。- p. v, W- S0 q; o+ w& h
: S- n+ Z3 a: v6 g& w& \% |, a' xTwo 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。0 [+ y" u/ n! ^8 K9 D* E! q% ^
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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."; j! D0 b; t# Q( ~
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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”。, b9 }& x1 _0 t, ]- W9 `
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