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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.+ A. m4 P/ ]1 }" k) w
; w& R9 A0 R( u" d* c% b! }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”。# g5 V* ^5 y5 z* e c% `9 Q
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.0 G" P1 y2 ?3 ^: h
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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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+ {6 ?1 a! W7 f, Z8 Q5 I/ R& F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。( |# m, |" h P3 l$ X2 G" ?0 ~
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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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+ M3 i+ S* m( j f3 Z& n5 M8 r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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When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.$ B+ q6 v; B" t# j# @
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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。6 l2 Q5 A3 k' c/ w0 S6 d6 j/ `! N
6 h+ I8 U' g; p6 n0 L: P1 t8 [+ EBut 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.) P0 p+ g3 o" M$ _
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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。0 K# k6 |: A1 R$ o% ?2 }8 j: v
5 _' M: F" f5 P) IThe 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.
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- e+ W2 {, p8 N i9 t# a# I7 ?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. 0 q, y8 [5 z5 i, M& a$ F0 y
$ I4 s7 a) }$ a3 K+ Z- R: |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。. @ x. |5 N- L) j) t
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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.' I" R( [2 q5 E& [
+ t8 J% V% X2 r$ B, U9 [你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。. x; I( L3 N$ { V' S X. Q8 ^
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.5 W' P R- _" s3 V7 N
# r3 r/ P5 h* Z$ A; O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. "* |3 I/ |/ c& w" {. Q9 u
' m+ E/ o3 A7 K" a$ a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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# c( A' D. @5 ]* I7 q* L) U# }! c/ NTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.8 g" U r% Y( m. O4 C( 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。2 M2 ]% Q* w1 [8 V3 t
1 \6 P7 R. L9 b$ l" z! g5 s' w; 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."/ H' n L# d$ L, P
/ W, \5 Z' a! l/ A* j. {0 y) Y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”。5 c+ {8 X0 l8 V2 j/ ^1 i
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