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生命就是小甜饼：
0 I1 T: M, ^- v4 K1 ^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.
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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”。 X, x5 u9 t3 T6 W0 S
% m O* n$ O, U$ t {( ]If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.; R( ?6 M* U$ b, W7 c( w
# Q: w" p4 O5 G0 }! d; d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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, z4 ?! O* v b a6 ]5 a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 T. T7 a/ r1 x/ @, ^
6 [" g9 Z4 k, V4 p: A% uA 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.; k u) q) c* T0 ]% }# z" I
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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。# V0 E; O8 \* f! v
( d9 `3 ^6 c( m& q, |9 ~When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.; y& L; C# c$ b# _. [/ B
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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。$ |, K* g D" S2 x" L6 X5 U
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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。
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2 Y) W. D5 ~: N2 P. ZThe 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.& l0 u: v3 x' X* p& v2 ^2 Z+ q9 H
7 K! d' c( d" _6 ]0 `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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, ~- ~; ?1 `7 w3 UYou 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. 1 j6 q" L! T% A+ B C/ E; `% \
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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。% F+ f" E. `( ?+ `% \6 T) _
, c% b [6 g/ x2 p7 I3 d5 UYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.- M9 }, I& H) Q+ V
% f _! k8 l- [( G你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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# A) f' ?: g& f5 y5 w& Q1 }- WHaving 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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5 B3 Q; @/ o. i& ~9 V/ QFor 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. ": y) n! S- }4 |3 p: N
% N0 a) K9 B- t# W% |# m% L- P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。4 A$ t3 F2 k& F# y' Q, b* U
* E+ l( w. E# G4 X: MTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.2 N$ O2 Q2 U# n- {- y" X6 l" d( \% q
/ ]4 a* u0 s& U) @“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。! o8 r* `! M5 r) y5 [' {+ @
* C c9 k) E! a) n( g2 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."" ^; [) d9 |9 q) k
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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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