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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.1 G: S3 x" ?6 `# U2 O% Y; ~7 I. u
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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”。) ^, R I3 }+ U2 s1 I! U+ b/ G1 S
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. / v) D6 z( N$ ^ ; u' u% T9 w4 J9 N, I1 u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。 1 z# L. L+ z! X7 ]% \9 Y* q5 w* n
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. ( c3 D: `, ?* y2 z9 R1 ? , B2 c3 n0 r" R8 r% p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。 : a, y! l; M/ j' v( \+ T) ~5 e* T0 E5 C- w% q1 N
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. 7 B5 e. V* b. M1 M3 s2 n # y( I, W3 x! c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。+ F" ~: m g9 l8 X* ~3 d. t( @
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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.( }& S# y1 \9 h3 D' h( i
4 Q3 W+ y. t, S% V: H! |8 ~9 k' }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。) a' ^; L: A; r, }. w
9 \# Z1 V; y, [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. 4 A2 {) @9 [" [2 T, S9 z 2 i4 w" v; ]% E9 r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。1 H/ R6 Q# k. X% ?* i% l
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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 \$ [+ Q5 T9 w) @9 n! I4 S2 J: R g+ 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。! f& w' L# N+ H+ u. I# a
( i; h9 `" |; \9 S. gYou 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. - o2 g! }/ j4 s5 `8 u
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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。( q* H, L) |" k: W
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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.: j; l: A) u/ R# \' T. d8 z
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.3 M' v1 i6 V1 ^5 u; \
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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。 ) ~1 }% r# |2 A5 u Q) K- {7 M4 l1 U" ~+ [
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! o2 q. ]! z6 e( f; A
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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。 8 }: x) u. [9 f& T5 ~1 {" L; w) o9 B$ c3 W/ \! K$ f
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.! d, S& d2 W6 Q2 I- z% y
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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."0 V# [. k- g7 u/ V2 h* c# t* N7 X D
$ u. U% \- z. r, b2 a; i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”。 , A O4 d5 O3 t, z6 Y2 p6 Z+ X( V- b, s
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