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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.7 b- X# ^2 U$ s; S7 [! M
/ X# Y) q. b2 e* U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 O3 s. P2 H4 j. ]
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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。) t+ W$ F$ U, Y* z/ P9 R: `( S
1 h! F( d- o0 Y7 _; hSome 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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+ u; c8 P; j( t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 [1 m8 a' C7 d! r- _
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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.
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. B% |7 }* N- y, y. N! K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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0 a% Q6 i. t5 g0 i6 ~+ IWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.: n( M. s0 J6 n, A r3 r
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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。. Q8 m9 x, A/ e
" y7 |4 `: H' P, k/ ~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.
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' N5 A& B4 E& F( O. H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。4 ]: j. E' G4 H0 y" w9 y3 i0 V
: | f) v# A9 i( R, }( xThe 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.* y& U4 ^: J+ j7 }+ B! R
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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. 9 \/ z4 _1 z" m9 t% i7 g% X( o. n
% q, p9 o% g/ f- |! h- J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.
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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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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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: K m- H- A- m: R+ B- ATwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.( O3 V6 e. _& l# N& H
8 E5 }) b* Q, V! _( Q6 u( X8 g) H“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。( J* m# C% H% a# H+ l: _0 X" @4 ^) v
% U2 s& B" N( ?: X0 ~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.", N/ Z0 ~# K6 |+ @" G. }
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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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