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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. + x6 i5 J5 \) ]1 c! O / K/ }# z2 y8 X! ~* _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”。& z5 l- u9 l7 Q5 B5 c
8 `, c# [# o, kIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.4 A+ ?) c' {2 V9 r
l& j$ O: |. E3 |$ d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。 $ ?9 b1 c' N$ t 0 F2 _( O" M( T) F; oSome 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. 9 @/ s+ u! a# p. c; G. B0 o8 \- [$ j* T! u' W
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。" p, L3 B7 X/ S! q( ?
- w9 o8 ]! L. U$ ^* F4 Q* g& YA 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.+ @2 @* v' Y- y7 x
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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。 9 u+ Z! v; t9 X9 M$ v# m $ v6 @. C' C6 M* [# o3 j9 Y3 w% qWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. $ z7 g, K# U+ E" i$ r0 @ t" f6 _3 U, c7 F% U, ~7 v6 p
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。 ) t5 t- e8 L9 C . R* X2 y& ?6 KBut 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.- _7 L/ s5 x9 y. _, a
. m% ]2 e0 Z' N$ }4 M4 l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 L* P/ b8 \# A- ?! O: z! e i3 N! }1 |: n& }$ j* A- |
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. % _# H' d) B8 z, I3 {' T& w" s l5 P: }; @, A
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。/ _8 ?+ ^9 p3 f) r
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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. * c. m! q; [2 }' U' t* _9 w
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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。0 ?; ^5 b; i6 f: `, T
/ n5 ^) ~1 s7 \5 r( t/ p8 W' hYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. - k: g2 L8 W+ f% k ' B% B( a3 W/ w! C3 E/ V" n& c4 Q3 N你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 4 `0 L/ ^/ F6 P + L6 P6 h+ w9 t8 qHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 9 x' I& x+ K5 G2 {" b5 X: N; Q/ W* f# J9 c" Q
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. S, ^& q 4 B2 @) a, p" X) i% Z* `9 vFor 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. ") [. f( j k" M; [/ M
* z+ ?8 J- u9 p8 W+ w6 V- H( F1 R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。; s4 F d$ u( k$ L0 _' X$ ]
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. , d/ H9 V' O8 J" S( O* q - N' M4 N6 n+ I8 V7 t9 D“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 + g/ l: P. P8 I. Q+ ]" a" m* x# B) O W2 y5 Q ]! M
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." 6 {& I+ u( d$ X% b+ }: D' ] $ [( L9 Q9 w( [- q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”。" [8 Y. ^, S" ?9 B
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