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W/ h( ?1 F) [) Y& u+ j9 sOne 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.6 p* k" e$ m+ u1 d% [8 B
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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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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.6 r# s9 P& b3 W2 a) |
# p* t& e3 `9 }8 r5 @9 i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。
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. _0 n i7 a* C& f0 ~( cA 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.
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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。
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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." }, {, k# R) M1 f3 X- ~" ~
. \! S& n- u& }9 \! F9 c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.- p7 A; s% F) b& v3 m8 ]) K2 c6 s
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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。( o; S" Y2 Y f* Q6 f1 o& \8 j
6 B" G: f7 t4 `# E/ }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.
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0 o7 N1 {) S5 v( n D% 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。+ W! t1 t' B# m$ l. c" ?# k% z& Q
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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. & ]# ?0 u/ H' V U& r" w
, ~' }4 P. ^' ~5 c5 p* E8 n c5 u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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You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.: Y9 h# E, a' C. W
* r+ i, v5 E# Y8 X6 q4 J% |你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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" R8 X' N, C, a' @5 {7 g' k) U/ mHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.$ a0 d5 e0 O( o( n, L
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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。
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# l! i9 i5 J7 l, v+ M f1 mFor 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. "' E1 n5 n5 H; |
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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。 P3 M" g; `3 Q! f& p
, E+ J4 ^' \5 k$ ~Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.2 H' W! D& m! z% |
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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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4 d/ m6 H* q2 s1 F5 w/ V4 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."" i6 a& f" q# B7 {/ B
! D9 |$ A& h( E' R7 G0 v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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