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/ b: }8 o8 G/ z) e5 IOne 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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, d- t# ^$ c! F" E+ D$ Z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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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.. r4 u" I# h& m3 h
" Q' H1 I7 r8 X8 W, N$ h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。' P9 o+ R# }3 O; P, |% q* b1 T- @# a( Y
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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.) P" E4 ]( Q% l) G8 L3 o
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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。2 H8 |* B* j# x. ~, N" A7 F! F2 U- n' R, G
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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.! c+ F3 G( e& I" o# ]2 ~
1 Y! R" `7 F. ^" `- P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。
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- D v" l% m, R6 ]3 ` d6 \7 I/ mWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.5 F) e! S0 T* @4 B' r/ Z8 p
" U0 H' u( q! l) R Y0 v) R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。5 n9 B, u/ X$ g3 g
5 v0 w3 Q- Y1 }( ^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.# r$ X5 r5 s: o, R) A
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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。2 F7 l& V( M) t+ [) X
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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.6 [# H K* X7 J# C
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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.
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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 x% O, m2 v
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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.
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7 `, x$ @) E& S7 d; B5 N% C; X- A你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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' b+ F& X5 U+ X$ lHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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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。9 ^* F0 P. X. @: N
8 I" E y8 E; H) a9 {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. "
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. `- o) _: `: ~ G, M/ R( O$ J2 W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。3 u. r% q3 L' N: s. J+ t4 d
6 |, {4 I3 R' \( n2 C" i% ~. @ |Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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4 n4 p& P9 E6 R; n: M5 D1 z- n5 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。
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' l. w3 w7 n* K! O; U" ULife. 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”。
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