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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.
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L* r' G. S# T8 s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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- h4 o" J1 F0 QIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.& P9 x3 g$ ^6 }1 |; ?% D
* l% H$ z8 }( {4 @3 J# x! R. y& Z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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9 n" D$ o9 P2 p" j& SSome 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.1 m- c; R4 m( {, G# M( `5 n L. D
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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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' s5 v6 U2 p& h1 b1 X6 HA 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。* J: t8 W8 m6 _; F3 `3 a* m
" S3 C7 a: G6 r/ |$ sWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.. \" [4 K6 V8 n+ o+ ^' Y
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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。1 b0 N: ]: P3 M5 ^
1 P% R1 i; G5 lBut 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.8 i. j7 |- C1 A# \. z; W
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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。9 Q8 q$ S4 O+ p( b
" t4 H$ p) T0 J$ ?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.8 g! F0 u& ^. C P$ I% s. ]
M5 G, t- n4 o' t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。( `) V# b) G6 ] x1 u' h7 |9 x
! _$ p, z' j: x* tYou 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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* {- g" t% ]* i" K9 Z. i' D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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' t3 b8 x& L+ f. |- iYou 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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9 Y9 s5 ?% S4 w6 G+ JHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.6 p% Q0 R( j& C
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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. "3 f' n( ~: @* p0 x" [
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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。* z. k! z! k; ?& C! Q
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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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1 m8 A: U, K( _2 J" r! o& G/ i“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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) k* ?/ e% t c/ h1 w# ~ zLife. 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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: w+ Q* Q/ {7 {' B# s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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