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$ S3 E9 W5 G6 G. k# e D- ^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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: `2 T& a. R9 @4 k3 t6 m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 K5 n5 w. O# _/ s1 d6 ]' }8 |: a! J# X
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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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。+ Q; K1 ] e$ |& [
* J* k* Q0 ]' t w6 {$ rSome 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。: ^* s/ H, }2 k# 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.4 y, @: S) i& n" ~
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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。) v: O& C: x' w/ o2 f* b) U
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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.4 i }. }* A# ?
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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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: g5 ^& R$ F* u1 ]' g c2 eBut 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.( q9 P2 K$ }; y& X- K' L3 I' E" K* P
" T3 ^8 x3 ?, q- J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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1 y6 [5 a+ s) @6 T1 Y! e3 OThe 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., d' o8 \/ I" v' Q) v
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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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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, i m* K" F4 P9 C
4 D1 Q8 K7 [' p& r: B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。& {; e8 X# J$ a. r. F
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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.* G3 R! n* w! \
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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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R- u9 [' D0 G: w* W" g# D5 VHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him." |: P5 ?# B, d f6 K" D+ }8 G
% t3 o) U- A: y& w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 u" o$ D/ b
1 ^) x5 q y$ t- b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。; _+ u' @, D2 i, q" Z$ |) `; p5 e
7 O( S3 r0 q1 Q, pTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.3 X) t, c( d. g; s: U
1 f y/ B# v1 }! I“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。! K' f0 A7 i! P1 g* R5 r
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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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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”。. N1 V5 c- ?$ {$ {
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