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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.0 W7 f4 P. k. o2 g7 f E7 K
/ L- R/ j0 D5 y- b a7 C# s6 E3 ]! B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”。 2 Q. `! S( ~0 G& V- { 5 Q' m; [9 L' u; [# dIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. + b6 v9 \( V) c' F : V/ |% r! c) 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。2 Z& c; R1 v6 Y! H
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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.0 o: b0 E$ x6 N) \
$ n5 Q: o1 A, T p: A, ^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。8 [# e7 G! ^8 T; X* R0 m
/ b3 O# F4 n8 E( H% _$ eA 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. 6 T; e& N- y; L. S' { # a( W2 h; w; ^1 P0 u# Y+ H+ G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。0 q# H4 S% \2 B& X" P0 m9 ~1 o6 w2 {
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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. 1 b6 F9 _8 F& Y% v$ w7 g: ~- x$ s, [! T; 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。 % t/ X" G( {1 Z 3 D3 @5 J% I& J" t! t8 ^' [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.9 w) Z* O% {4 w- w: b0 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。6 L' t! h0 k: P# i
0 I4 \" c4 o5 E' t X# QThe 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.6 x: R( C: J. i2 _
& l* T2 |* F# w: {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。4 ^7 m. h" p4 o$ ]/ N" ~" |* M
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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. 6 E/ X7 p$ c" H7 R 4 _- z V/ [; R" i X" }$ U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。 * n$ |2 ?' |5 a8 r6 I0 \# X' r9 b' ~* R2 m! L0 |
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. $ o& p1 {* D0 }! s# G/ e0 E+ m2 Y- \. [/ K2 [( ^9 n1 `* v, e0 ]
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.. z2 v0 t: y& j. e
$ u5 p. r6 H0 R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。 3 `* G6 j9 n. F; y% N8 D' F- k6 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. "# v4 M6 b, z' @
/ ~& d" H7 P% v ?2 K* e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。 , H3 I* j5 h" F0 x$ J9 ^# x9 W$ A6 {
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.+ ?% Y# m9 t, b/ v' X
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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。1 n8 x/ q+ z4 e- K! n: G- I, 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." X/ c7 J! P% i6 `# E# b+ E& }; e 9 x) o& i/ R% c- I- O* K! u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”。 3 B' [! P& ]) \5 A4 z8 b Z8 {: ]0 _' Q7 Y" M
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