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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. ; M! k Q, {/ Y 9 E n/ w1 V/ c8 P4 `6 G# h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”。9 K" y5 i5 z2 G, z
: O9 G% x( W2 z7 g+ zIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing./ x6 S0 B, j1 y1 p
& r" g5 b: D* w) O$ K# B8 ^! j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。" I; ~' b" C$ r' I
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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.% Y( S9 V" [- k" `
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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 ]5 }6 `5 m9 v- j- ^ 6 f/ \% j' r$ J$ z" SA 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. : `4 l {! |/ B, C# p m - K: x8 C9 v9 }7 o1 ]% Q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。 ; F4 ], l, g3 y6 ?$ Z8 |7 m8 |( O+ L4 A3 j+ h3 ]2 j/ I* y2 x! f
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. 1 i! q! ?, h; {" \ $ D- M, D# K1 O* I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。 % ^1 J" R& x1 A$ q" x 7 C/ F6 B3 z0 |7 N% iBut 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. 3 _9 [! d7 d4 j$ j5 |' w " {8 Y; Z) X$ D; I4 ^( 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。& L: L, l0 d# ~% F2 l; F! 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. : x6 d, @/ L' X4 A& k# k6 ~3 k0 o8 g# _/ G7 L* ]- r: s
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。 ( l, Z+ v8 S" e% d; @. d 4 o( b* r I% }. e- b* eYou 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. 5 Y- k2 k; {" o : Y' ~( p9 N) ?, C& c9 ^" x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。! d2 T7 ~6 k3 O$ U+ F7 \6 x
) k/ b' ]3 i; p1 {1 ~You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.$ v1 c4 t `' h/ t) D) q$ N7 N
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 ' V% x: ^$ C( ?4 G# q% u , c3 Z: y# Y6 L. N0 \- u6 jHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.- v) J: B% Q5 p7 E) I
3 N% m5 a! A4 E9 a- U5 _" J7 u0 }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. "+ g2 }1 p7 j" r3 T
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. ' }: M0 J0 S: r; I1 M! U. j4 p9 P. S1 B" `6 F
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。, E, u. I- c* m* B5 b; R
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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." ( Y6 F5 e6 ^6 V6 P' A & w8 S: l2 J0 R2 b, B& l( s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”。 " Q0 |# f1 O2 q, R3 i& ~/ f% n# o/ A9 D% E# D8 _
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