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4 Z, u B0 s3 E4 ~生命就是小甜饼：
' N5 s: k0 J8 [* MOne 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.7 W1 I/ q7 _$ |) d0 D
8 i' ~! z3 [6 G) k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”。9 o& o3 s/ B& G2 S* f
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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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0 b2 k& G* | Q# f+ d: u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。$ F A( B$ b" t2 b
3 z( J' x9 P1 o5 z% y& ^: ?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.
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2 `# I$ R" k$ d/ F( }# ~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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4 h( M3 Z) k) |1 j: N6 FWhen 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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' z% T$ a: K6 t* o! R% {( c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。: ]/ |' b6 X. L( S, S+ @' a
2 [; ?/ r* v. c2 [7 a7 uThe 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 W" a: ^: O6 O* S4 O. V
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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。) [6 b$ B* l! g2 s
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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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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。, d7 h: t( S) W. t
+ B8 e: T1 y5 O7 nYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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/ M% W O; ?1 }, B6 n你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。: U' D- n& f/ E A* I/ u
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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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9 r/ V, X# Y4 G4 \4 S" g* X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。0 g3 H, \- \; {- l" s) b2 D; l
, c5 G& X) j# S: VFor 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. ": ?$ D# Z2 l' E
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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。5 j+ m. D" T, o/ I$ l
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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/ a* B6 L. R4 ?0 o% ~( w7 z3 ~& p“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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1 }/ B* n0 G; M8 d3 y: E, `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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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”。/ {6 G) _ M( J9 w
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