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7 b, H( u4 P* W4 e+ }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.3 @! h6 z0 \. U
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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”。- [1 r/ g+ L. ]5 a6 r3 N) |$ e
9 { V& v) D# w# f: j. P JIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.: j4 ?6 G: [& n% i9 T( g( H1 P
9 I5 t) ]6 `3 {! p, f2 H( 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。5 W% ^: a. G7 K% f. z
" ?# N, S- L/ s( O5 M7 S7 J/ d7 @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.5 K( y/ P) F6 c& d
3 N2 Q; B$ v0 E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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2 Y* f' ]: t' A5 e' xA 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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9 T f8 b t8 u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。" H* Q! e: _, Y4 ?
7 N1 C, Z4 p$ U' OWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.
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/ Z& q1 d* m: X+ z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.& b* w7 ~9 V$ f% @# s
' h& p. y4 f F& Q: M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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) n6 ^. e3 C9 NThe 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 i+ d8 b9 W1 Z1 n
1 b- D# i+ N- c' v r6 M1 w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。5 Z, ]8 D: z/ n* U5 N V/ M
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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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5 c/ l8 r0 l6 j9 e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。+ q1 I1 t* M* w: ~9 ~0 c) d
9 J# d5 ~! X7 K' fYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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8 s. M I% o9 S* b! n% g0 ~5 |你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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) g0 S* q/ r" C+ tHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.; M {9 R/ z) z+ f
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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. ": C0 ]0 l1 {8 G$ V" a- O9 A* ?
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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。
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8 }0 g4 }4 b; }; ^1 X9 CTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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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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+ D& Y3 D# P- W: a; W1 r3 RLife. 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."; ?1 R4 K# g6 q1 C4 K
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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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