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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.7 b% x4 d9 |7 i2 X7 \6 R+ ?" L
) n) k) ~7 b( p4 t! P N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' h: X: [# r4 w1 D1 ^7 Y# W- C7 ~
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. . H4 ` O8 O' I8 e! K- y# V7 e, V) V4 r# a2 g( g7 S
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。7 B9 \3 a/ D( d) }1 U
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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. / z: G5 [ N( v* t8 D- e3 t8 N* K) X4 r: n- y
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。( F# R7 t# @' s" r* z
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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.% o- M1 z5 u$ H5 t( I
" d) \7 Z( M1 V: f" ~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。' x9 A5 ^% m- U8 ^- |6 I
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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. 6 C3 K3 |4 W4 {+ [9 `9 F: Y3 k0 x: @5 O9 Q2 Q( r |% g; r- e
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。) X4 ?1 k H: T
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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.9 L1 r6 S1 e3 v. r# N
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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。# c1 i5 v: {" j) `) h6 v
6 A' h. D) F1 b: n9 p: C1 ]& M/ WThe 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. % ?, I, z V& M. P3 l% ?/ x7 I8 w5 h/ x! _
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 j, [9 W8 I& h- v2 B& d# ~: A# H
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. . j/ o1 f3 ~0 a+ P6 `' t- V. u " y0 w8 y8 D' K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。8 o. o! Z" t3 B5 J1 ]
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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.0 s I' y* ^: G2 t# y/ f! @
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。7 t! U7 E# j3 r( R4 e
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.; [& v+ s# y i3 \9 H$ _1 r
5 s* P# f7 |3 g8 b2 a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。( Z0 z4 J- L" n' n& v, c$ d
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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. " 8 G2 ?5 |; L* ] @# l! Y0 P8 s( }0 z J A- e# Q% {( m! N
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。+ }; d8 U" |+ y4 [7 h
U# R( o" J& x; VTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. ( m+ J$ e9 R! R4 @+ x M2 g; Q, ^- q4 |! P9 r" _
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。# ]2 n0 ^& m% ?; T" u( l: l
, ]4 Z1 `& x0 ]/ U/ I* 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."! C4 ^- ~- _2 Q
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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”。 6 j) ?7 k1 x- Z b$ i& v/ C! y# X
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