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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.
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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”。
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3 S- G9 t( N! K+ EIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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1 q$ N; ?3 f, d# t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。
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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.
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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。% Q4 @* x$ j" o( h9 X3 I8 @
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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.; a7 P6 K0 Z) F; c$ ], i# B6 b2 a
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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。. H6 e8 u, r( z0 Z) |

7 w# N/ F. n3 x- t% s* PWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.- ?# m7 w9 w- X& _4 i5 v

6 }$ g! @. W% M" j4 Z6 {5 k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。
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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.0 Y  G) A9 Y* L: U

( c9 {" h: e7 J8 `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 I2 |% u0 I
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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.; n# V' K4 P  J4 f( M. o

$ s2 J7 N# z: X. V5 r0 ]& i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。
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4 x9 S# G( v7 m3 D  HYou 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.
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* G; g- p# k7 H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。
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9 \' A! P, Q" @0 q) \0 }You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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你忙于不让自己失去它,甚至没有时间享受它。
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.* o* I$ N7 t& H/ n. b# \* Z' M

2 T$ B1 I: a9 w  E  v+ \# q, ~% h: _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。
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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. "1 v! J/ [) y2 q/ {4 @

2 `, p( s. X. X& a3 A4 [% A2 a% P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。, G- P3 V) D# _; W! d6 [
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.+ v! w' H! b& m- M! Y2 `4 `( p$ M
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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。
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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."
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6 D  |4 y+ d. A# B- ^% B( P5 |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”。# z3 f$ H  E) M0 u, a2 a

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