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. e' Y9 _ E! P0 V+ hOne 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.9 V4 K/ b9 p8 A( d& V# Q
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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”。9 f \- m1 C; G; G; _- W( z# j
6 }, ?1 @$ m, t' L7 `8 AIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.. @# l! I& j" c# ]3 T5 ]
# f# m, A4 B: _) l, O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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9 V/ @2 |4 @1 G( WA 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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4 \: K4 s/ e8 O6 R+ s' L* ]$ j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。# q" q4 j* m+ j9 g3 m! w
$ D+ T, Z2 u4 P+ z7 `8 _When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.. M, O5 E+ {2 v0 _6 T/ 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。& m; O( A9 B6 {
% r, C; i4 K# xBut 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.
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: ]' B) Z8 D1 o, t, F% L9 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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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.8 r" S4 o ]" X2 R1 {* p
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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。0 {1 }+ z& m0 D0 v
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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。
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8 `5 j. ?9 M( wYou 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.
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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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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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0 V1 m, f. s) }( }" M- r2 d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.4 ?; C% |$ w+ J, ?5 [! @- s% s- f
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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。" D0 I; w/ n {4 d
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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."$ u9 V$ a d- n, r
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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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