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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., x# M0 S) [/ |) S. c
* m; T1 Q2 S( u/ X/ e1 V& k9 q* D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”。5 Y# C% H1 n s8 q
@) c+ \/ a1 y/ QIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. : z* B8 G% o# J' G6 r' y4 D4 s( Z1 ?5 M y" h9 r6 ^
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。/ p% X6 z$ Z% J% U: Z
$ \: t* R) ?3 l( H5 ?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. ; @ | M+ i# S1 w& G# r2 ~ ; a, R3 [3 e3 L+ w) o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。7 F; _7 N6 n! g: U* B: w! S; l* u
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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. - v5 e: C5 s4 e& k9 r# v7 g: I$ H% O0 ]# `
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。+ K% x7 O4 \4 _* G
, e. J$ U6 J$ k: L- q5 ?When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy./ C. j h& V- a8 Q
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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。, _* V/ K, \6 e! l
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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.& P9 K3 V6 J I* W( _
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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。: n' g3 }$ U9 g, F" E4 f, ^
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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. ; C( q+ N" Z: u( w* E/ \+ X: E+ f( L% 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。) N$ e M# @" G' V; K1 ^
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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. A4 S i) Z2 k a 1 A' \: b' e, }8 u H- X1 p$ b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。3 c+ [% {4 j6 @4 d, `( q0 h5 @
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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. ) m8 h/ m N, Z $ z, e" `. _& {6 D0 I# G你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 " ~4 g. s* d" _. Q0 Y/ X0 s8 S7 O/ `. K5 n+ Y7 u
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.* S* N+ p- g, n0 z9 V& k
( G" T" Z8 b7 h, f" V$ R- a# {$ A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。, G/ j: V5 j' ~; m: ^
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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. " 3 Z* ~) i9 z: G$ E' F& O7 w, G1 r! ]/ t! Q6 w
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。6 J4 s' N: }7 W
1 i6 U" z5 c1 i0 n$ o3 U% yTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 9 j/ O+ \. J: E0 _8 Q4 Z. r C4 o8 ^2 M1 b# D$ S E, _+ s3 r( a
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 * c( A) z) I: d& G. k$ K3 B % N$ ]$ r: p/ i0 w9 q9 x9 mLife. 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."$ C* b2 ]! z# N" t) u3 @# m+ q
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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”。 # H; z$ n( p( y3 O( e$ N4 f3 ?' O
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