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# n" O( j3 ]/ {0 u8 {+ l4 C生命就是小甜饼：! D2 J1 `9 g. Q4 @
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.% b( {# I; l; l# r- P# T
* [# U8 T4 \. c1 o/ y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”。) E- I g. l# p
6 C: F( y6 F$ _5 WIf 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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- K" [) E0 J. _% m- J$ `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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. R( K2 E: \! \5 wA 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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+ n& ~$ m, j- j' o* v$ 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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6 z- i: L' ^' J& ^2 F8 O n6 s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。3 {- v( L% M$ m7 i# B0 M
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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.8 s- o( ~/ @9 m$ h. 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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, c1 L$ S) k& k( g# Z) l/ c( e0 sThe 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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' P' W8 Z* o2 }0 `0 |. K( z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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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. 5 ^! i# W4 m0 W( @. F+ N
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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。0 t" }3 W+ K9 R
- ]* i+ V+ `1 [% V. [ K/ IYou 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。
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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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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 _: H: N( A9 t5 t0 M$ L- HFor 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. "
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* j; o& `: L6 w- 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。: A3 R4 [+ Q! }; v) v+ F. N
* s8 B/ t. a( b. }/ t. ~Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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1 `5 Y7 N0 V' t! U- o1 c% d7 L“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。5 f) S% ]6 g. N* j% ^0 ` w7 _
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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."6 R- a0 l' Q: p' ?5 P7 m0 u
0 {; z1 r; d3 {& n4 }& p T+ O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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