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7 w7 w& E# H2 K+ L1 [# W5 F* _ O& O3 wOne 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." K" f$ @/ F, W& d
% N; z( Q {. C2 g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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6 @. {- y9 }* O+ O* ~If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.: f( H- \4 d! D* N @
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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。
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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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$ C$ [! B" g- r3 \9 W7 }% u' IA 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。: t+ N; p$ G6 N1 x
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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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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.
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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。; h. F3 @$ p: z6 K# P
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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., _9 @ M& L( p- |0 k* R3 G
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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。; C8 f7 v% A7 J/ [9 {- j" ^4 m1 D9 H
, M7 x3 |" D; iYou 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. 5 [: U8 w+ }: j& @/ I3 @8 J
9 V4 l4 t$ s- W* y' c/ c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。) ?6 ?) y2 n, C0 z5 _6 Q
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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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* z F: l% K/ {* N+ _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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( V0 Y0 j# |2 a# XFor 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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4 o' x7 y! s6 ?" c V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。& F8 b& d+ p; P8 b5 W
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.. O+ ^3 R, T8 E+ o1 ]# d$ q2 G
" @+ \( D# R, m6 t) j) q) f( a# e; N+ e“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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5 V4 j+ x1 l- j8 T: u- FLife. 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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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”。. {! X5 J' E; }3 G. o
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