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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.4 S6 s& U* B. B' q: J
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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”。 . g& N- L: f6 m# ]" X) l; _: N8 S7 c7 u
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.4 Z5 K+ V! A4 Z( ]$ U
7 o$ G9 i t I @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。3 x- f8 n h `1 k' ]# K$ e
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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. % p% f8 p# R0 D: j9 e1 p5 l! f) y4 x( z0 b, h, _
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。3 E# V. B9 ~) t5 Z& C4 u3 ~
/ g5 |3 g% P$ r9 U9 S" h( H& hA 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.3 I6 B, F) ?2 V5 T, d: v
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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。 3 t Y3 a5 K0 w- t: C4 o $ w! b4 k7 [& \( O4 i- q4 ZWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. % `! K5 c' m4 ]3 a- i+ o3 r* y) b. Z6 L, a
当我给我儿子一个小甜饼时，他心花怒放。如果我拿走甜饼或者是小甜饼碎了，他就闷闷不乐。 ) l! N) U6 k3 e! V6 x ( [- \, s% G. ?0 ?/ z( S+ _8 ^But he is two and a half and I am forty-three. It's taken me this long to understand that the cookie will never make me happy for long.4 B; Z; t7 N4 R; ^4 P6 P, d) R' N
# H% p) s* G; |8 \ p2 fThe minute you have the cookie it starts to crumble or you start to worry about it crumbling or about someone trying to take it away from you. 5 c; W4 Y) N+ d4 ~1 z 5 I _) _, c' i0 @4 ?0 |从你拥有小甜饼的那一刻，它就开始破碎，或者你就开始担心它会破碎，抑或你开始担心别人拿走它。& ~1 x' Q+ T7 \) p
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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. / S0 e% x& @2 v+ u: r9 x, o
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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。. E; o0 h" x% H- M' n. B7 l0 O
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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. 4 g6 l b% N/ E6 Q: a 9 h/ w* B+ k2 f6 Q你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 1 h- I7 X, g. @( j) f7 ~; ]- U! c4 K" o9 B' `* j
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.* F/ E2 O- W/ j! _3 Q- O
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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。 , w# @. m' L. e3 J # m' f1 m8 h) C8 A n5 N& }/ x' _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. "2 c" L6 o: t' w& I" P
- t. c f" S/ z0 r K9 n3 Q( o" K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。 2 ^2 N2 |8 K3 U! a) a0 z7 F# a: ]- l: b' o( b
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.% A* V7 h# A8 @
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“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 3 P# ^/ V0 W8 ]- m# K7 Y7 ^8 C2 k4 o, g+ V1 [: n$ l
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 R+ _; L! X9 X- O6 W2 r \" |6 A
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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”。) c2 w$ M# c: |
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