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6 E7 |% e$ d3 w/ @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.

+ T/ \9 G9 S7 R, a" r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* g1 T# y% K5 lIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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8 B7 a! S% i0 F! R8 W0 {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 U& }) i1 F  ]6 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.

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。
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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.

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。

- w6 G8 V$ y4 a; pWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.
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" ], k" I* X+ b8 u6 F# 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。

  q$ f; [& z' W! vBut 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.

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。
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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.

: b3 n/ u% z! t; ?$ Y" C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。

0 ?) l! U, U& o2 D/ R: b6 u  UYou 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.

9 u# ]7 b1 g- J1 y2 g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。

You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.

' E4 q7 w' o# o2 m, F# B9 K你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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6 p7 z: W- T! sHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.

7 P* \6 x( z+ C/ q+ N) @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 U3 e: V8 x" hFor 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. "

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。
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.

) M  r( h6 l! _# s' C# k6 p- M“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。

0 }0 p$ r* K+ H  }  F1 G; ILife. 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."

/ r( v1 g& ?$ L1 {! W) p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”。
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