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R3 o; s. B/ L. |% l2 m生命就是小甜饼：
% m) n* X" }7 f" W2 V+ K% A+ B$ qOne 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”。" W7 S. O' t( ?4 m; Q* A
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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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9 K6 e1 @0 e" U# w' l6 Y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。9 F6 ?( D9 M, I5 q! ~
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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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9 D8 l% C q8 o; _5 _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。6 Z' N1 G: Q& A& I3 x& O
& b! Z% k6 h6 P* [- VA 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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$ a5 k) y( N$ A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。5 o) s0 g& `2 _& Z+ Z
; e+ \) ]( D( D+ e( fWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.# U) [ `8 k! I
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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。
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! U8 b9 y/ V$ r/ LBut 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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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.1 ?% q" l% k2 O
6 t/ o" Y# n! |' {; v9 `4 h5 C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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4 S8 q( i- ]8 `; g4 F) o" ?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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: g3 h8 f# _2 I5 y1 _" {# I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。: ^6 J* t) a5 w' |5 }* t
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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.
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。. K. K' f. G. }+ Z( [1 R- m8 P/ R
& K# T2 I& ~, K$ Z6 IHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him." C( j& |4 l/ c1 r! n
0 [! |2 c% f7 G t% { ~' J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. "- u) k2 ?& t- J& \# L
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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。% l- _' Y: \" V0 t* n: r% j
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.: k: Z6 p; v+ x* K
# _/ _' m+ d! {: n“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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, [# N/ |5 w- X H8 G7 @ gLife. 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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4 @& I2 d+ Q& \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”。# X8 X1 S' x6 u" D, l; K
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