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( F3 L V9 u* y1 `生命就是小甜饼：
0 w, Z) g% L V: h( j1 l* r# `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.( B5 O$ q5 T$ Y( _% [5 `
, m. Y6 V/ X+ L' S c! I! j8 ~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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* k( e$ [! Q, {. j* }( ZIf 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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; |8 x9 |# J" Y. `) i7 {0 OSome 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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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.) X* x3 s" A0 Y0 E1 V: R. {
9 p5 S. L6 i# q* W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.
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* |9 ~! q: h8 j/ |, a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.# i6 o! J% L: ]' O
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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。
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* R c# `" I5 s8 {% ^- f) G# aThe 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.. n/ h2 k( }$ P
2 F6 M$ z/ N! v7 P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。3 B1 v) c% M) R5 L9 e" [" U& \
8 o7 q1 f" h' rYou 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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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.& ~ O: G0 X; G# ^) z
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。! f! @* I1 l* o0 _- B2 E
4 @; I8 N3 t$ V0 i% {Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.2 M' Y9 Y4 N9 l$ @
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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 K% f5 {. U! F* [* s% ^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. "8 K n }& i+ D! z
* t# ]9 T5 G% x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。8 M v* W$ m: l5 k- [
& \/ S0 M6 L% q1 M7 U5 vTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.; Z) o0 t: l) H3 J
. [1 [2 n& [* E& g4 B4 ?" ^8 S5 x“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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# \$ B) a0 X+ H6 M+ X% }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."
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9 Q+ W/ X! e% ^7 z1 e+ f3 |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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