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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. $ [7 o! V- U6 Z! W; `) L6 y2 ]1 g, P% o1 S( D# H3 q" T
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”。, `! d; c, n, U7 T2 V
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. - T) r3 n( b" b% H4 B) v+ J0 B& z; N, c. l
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。2 g# D& Q% t8 E8 @/ B& ~
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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. + ?, d( @1 r1 j- n; `7 s. c3 o5 F. Y7 E
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。# i `1 i, G5 Q2 ` U& H
/ L" h7 m5 C5 J# QA 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. 1 \) `0 J( P- m# J8 e% W3 \: p) a; U
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。 * Z. R: c1 V- ?6 o& q5 ` ' E8 ^8 G1 U) p' `- [When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. : V3 b; u& y8 U6 I5 G 6 e& R! B* b( l1 |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。; C" k, Z& z* `) N# L$ k
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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. 0 e1 [2 {- A q. p( u9 y( N. ~ ' U( P1 X# m. C0 t: a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。& L6 T* @2 v0 N% ^' a
5 y1 i$ X% b- y2 h' UThe 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., E3 H2 [2 E0 ], u, J- x
% W6 i9 Q" ]; y6 u# n, Z2 |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。; Y% i5 J5 J% x0 F; C& L
l) v5 g% @' r/ _$ c% R. AYou 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. 4 `2 v/ l& m2 n: m, 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。 1 `0 m, D$ R, ]8 W) M3 E3 V6 v5 [/ ]' o2 C3 H
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( ~ o5 q) Q9 X* z4 C# H% h6 g1 |Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.$ h) `* F0 [* `$ J2 }# h
" S. b3 L; D6 D- \0 Q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。 2 A; n6 a* \- L) z$ F( e" b0 m# `3 L& a + ^1 f, R1 Z5 U3 {( LFor 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. " ) }1 G0 R4 X! p/ x + V$ r5 i, x4 V1 \" x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 |: ]3 n: v
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.1 \, U3 O' W6 P) \7 \% ^* ?
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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." & ^4 n0 e$ H. i# j% U5 E7 [ / L J' N9 M1 E6 e% 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”。) [7 e3 E; }4 ^
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