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& p9 d/ x. O5 r7 g1 c5 g! h' ]$ XOne 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 U/ I+ L/ V& v
! u+ G. |" ~) V7 r3 y% l9 o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”。) d/ ~& D. V+ ^6 A: D
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.& h# N4 U, \9 i, o9 O7 K6 ^0 H
# i& f, P7 i: Q4 t. J- b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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" }0 Q& ^1 N. D; _+ I0 q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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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.& I- i" r4 c% T9 \7 {; e
L! M8 R- F! B o# K/ E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。$ g( e0 D: I$ ]4 f0 k
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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.
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* h$ E/ }' l/ v7 F5 o4 ]6 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。1 d) t0 N0 |' a9 ?% H y
0 P& v( A) e( b: A* F9 U1 f, 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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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。6 ~( M" k5 U2 v, i
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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.( M2 F) t; H: n! S! H7 \
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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。# r) l: N$ \% a* v8 c7 K" Z, S- f
0 U" O2 I/ u& K1 y6 q3 v1 KYou 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. , v$ w7 b/ u& ^5 }* C5 S/ @, l+ W/ A
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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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9 P% R0 z) ~; O ]" e l sYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it./ [9 d* k4 ]: h4 l$ M* W
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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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( @* A' Y0 _$ yFor 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. "* Q+ _+ A8 }5 M8 ^2 V+ }
% V( W: z" m4 k/ P+ }' D; g! @; ~. f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.
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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。/ \/ ?, z" P- G2 C! E
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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."
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- j7 ]5 M/ m9 w+ F4 f" g5 p- ~% o9 G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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