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7 o* w+ Q1 y+ ~9 Y) l# J9 NOne 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.* @) Q% ^+ g! C) ^
( P _: K$ ^" c# ?+ n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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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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% g% V, [5 d" m) K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。* b0 R/ `( ?0 ]3 b$ ]% J( c) f
! E+ V9 B7 K" @' WSome 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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$ S6 k; I+ ]* W. n+ {/ Z' K" F/ K" w6 VA 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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2 M8 t) E/ n3 R2 M, s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。6 L1 T9 ^( q* M$ ^4 [
" ?0 J! N9 G% \: S7 e! z8 y3 nWhen 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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! U( h; W0 \7 j" h% d' {9 l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。9 M& ?7 C. W' v* \$ b0 V& M$ @4 ]
2 x; l' b0 p4 a$ 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.7 p+ ?3 i$ @, T8 |* @
$ \# C, D7 U6 n- m9 m1 P$ C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.
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1 u* N, Y* I8 t; s1 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。
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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.1 e4 G3 ~ y" z; \8 g/ f3 l
1 b. k% b3 {: c6 G. B( w+ x你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。5 m6 D/ V8 K' e0 a: h1 l
" g- I0 F+ @) h# C& x1 bHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.% `' p/ q( o1 L' k, ?" y- w* M
U' q) Z; ~2 Q* i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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# R$ O: ]' [% h f5 EFor 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。3 G$ F! A9 S$ ^2 i
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.: ]! I2 _* b4 C% Z/ B6 v. u, h* G
# [6 c9 Q/ Y7 W* x0 C+ t“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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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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( b( J. A3 v$ a, g; t5 Y9 M o' R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”。" ?( y$ H0 n( P
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