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生命就是小甜饼：
. Z1 k4 p: ]( F0 ]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.0 @8 i* n( }% o/ ?3 c
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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”。$ s$ K: ?+ t, J/ x5 i: k
u3 G& p! K* A& eIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.3 d& s3 z9 \2 z% c6 \ w1 w! @
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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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1 P6 e$ E4 F6 c1 {& n8 t& q1 cSome 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.; L# `1 _% ]$ X4 }# G( h' o
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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。8 P" \# y7 F0 z! |
/ W4 {+ p2 Y: X6 ^8 r. @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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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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* ~6 v. ~* U; @+ r; v9 M/ J# qWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.' c B9 t3 u! B* N) }- p
# E' n) E# n! v* `3 L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., h% L2 J* d) Q( ]; f
: y/ u/ _ t/ [9 [1 R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。! y6 c/ b6 y) }; C+ t
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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.
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R# h( p& R( j+ i, {# g8 k( w4 x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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' ]8 b( c9 D4 [+ i; ?7 QYou 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. ) N% U+ Z5 R! c) `- k" K
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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.$ A2 l; A( M' n2 H
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。- k" o7 r$ v" @# b8 B {
( \. w. O" Q$ SHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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/ U+ V0 U! ]) n0 C* F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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; u$ l% b$ w; n& y- ^2 e* g! FFor 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. "9 J a+ A v; J" g5 f
' N" J* ^& g! c- u t" ^6 M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。
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.4 ^6 [' _2 G i& x9 e4 f" q8 a3 N
' z1 B/ k' y' w“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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% T% G, X) j( H; b$ q; \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”。
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