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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.. H/ Y' s4 B- J7 a: D. n
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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”。 $ ]# I3 H, g" \" n5 c( k7 r 4 C; N' B6 y, c) p yIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. / w( e7 a& }0 ~% a3 @& Z' h; Q5 \ ! D/ U# M; d) d, ?0 K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。 ; ^5 I, N0 |9 O T' q+ w: f V1 L+ [* z4 v: w
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. * D- J7 @! \) _ & c U5 z5 c5 k/ ~( C, d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。: z/ M( u+ A: _) j9 W
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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.& z$ a0 J B3 F8 x; F
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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。2 x/ c7 M3 r8 K& ?( @9 k! \
+ Y$ M0 f( J/ Z( z) f+ PWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. . l( d2 x" j4 A; c! b1 C7 q) w# b: a" u F$ O9 e; 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。4 _6 I9 t# L$ d8 ]' T
* k @) Q8 {7 a: T7 SBut 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. 2 P$ N- z( ?' ~! b; l 6 n1 i9 O2 J2 V8 G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。 + v" S: R: e+ H7 U* @0 i, T ) K- z: p3 m" KThe 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., F, u& |' N( U1 w
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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。 + c4 p. Q% j+ e5 R9 z" q* @4 Q, K( P9 T# N, g
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. & o* Z/ c: `5 c7 C; Z3 |8 _+ b1 \8 j2 F$ D
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 ^5 q" w" D p+ b
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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.0 U8 q' e9 Z: U; h
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。# A# I; X+ h. a" E/ y# B2 L% x6 T
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. # N% P9 S9 i4 ^1 o& Y$ j # a3 }- H9 A& P" j. _2 p7 O0 w1 @5 f/ 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。 ' `6 @" W* `3 A; h4 s- c ! W9 i G" {# w9 g) [/ ^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. " + K. a2 C1 q# z6 e/ V; p( m* } - N. l3 W/ f f/ T r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。8 ^; L7 K, b2 `$ B: d2 j
( V) C- w4 U! TTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.* a, X7 {, b6 T, I8 n
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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." # p3 D7 ^$ m* U. I9 G" S2 J* ?3 J+ p4 s" D& L
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”。0 t; n2 Q' c* ~
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