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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.* K5 Y1 }" S4 R: {! e' ^# j' u! B$ E
+ V- ^& O q: ]8 f1 q" }% K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”。 % J, i' R$ G' z, l/ [. P; L7 q" y
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. ; x$ H+ o) K# W, V9 m7 n+ e% {: u* f- e0 D' q9 o. v F
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 S9 W! N, i8 ?/ d" }' 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. 2 d. p, K$ D' r% x: f1 S1 N # c3 t5 I+ U' Y# W0 b6 [6 X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 G1 B, U8 p k5 `+ K. c) `6 P
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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.9 u C8 E* L4 R$ G
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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。* D$ b$ [8 P6 t8 s; K9 X3 u$ w
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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.. w. y9 {2 T% r' \: ~& X
& K$ Y+ }: q, ?. B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。; v2 h- g' ]" U2 \; b5 Y
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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. ) a) K; C6 x( G4 Z1 l# C! W 7 q2 @4 M0 U1 i y2 N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。 3 k( T7 L5 d. p% ?8 y: l( W0 \+ l: O
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.* U- c a1 W. d; Q. {
; c% ?; w [: R& R1 Q8 K2 N8 P5 o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。 / A5 R. G, S P/ p Y8 h' s/ N; k6 M, S 7 {# e" u, J/ L9 J. X# O; H$ IYou 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. ; k% n" F+ c' T$ a/ U. d% ]
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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.! Z/ j( W* m; t4 w0 E; ?6 H; \
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。; [. u8 _8 Y2 q/ T Y
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. ) X( ^ ?) z. s& h6 f9 L1 Y/ `: o# c6 R8 Z, l
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。 7 w8 i# }" Q& _7 ]" c$ J# n3 d; ~* h1 J; q
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. " . |% l) T2 D% u6 A6 j8 b + M$ w; m& b! j0 W, Z9 k& U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。, Y+ i5 L! k; _1 n! e1 ~% X
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. , {" I# P/ K: i- b, t; _- P- j3 Z- E) Y# k
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 5 A2 A4 j: X5 k9 [7 V. p& @ 5 U G+ q0 \' CLife. 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." 3 y& `2 Q0 E6 H* r- V5 | C" G$ a& @% |: h# L2 {9 i; W5 k
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”。 5 u# P* T! @$ z& ~( H1 [$ D/ n* U/ k# q2 s1 v: R( h% v
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