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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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# I1 g8 R& i8 Y7 d+ k, E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”。0 K5 ^8 @ V5 ~
: u2 ^. N: _3 J7 F$ Q/ K1 a4 `If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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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。! s {0 l2 T! `' E/ U
- b. \+ [" Y3 t! PSome 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.+ e' `. \- |/ M. G) ?; B
% `2 s0 l+ D$ R' K; D4 K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。: R0 o q7 L1 }% u% Y9 Q$ z) x
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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./ {" Z0 a" n3 G& q
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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。
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9 Q) N; ]2 ?6 i- }0 _0 s5 OWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.- B' C, W; B2 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。
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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.) I& S, Z5 O* o) V* q3 B: t% F4 a
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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。
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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.
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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。
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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. % L/ t1 J ?# U# y4 \! N
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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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$ A! k; ] X( c$ R7 xYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it., `- R1 o4 z& j* x
2 r: _3 Z9 h4 ~* t" U5 z# j你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。, V. ]7 k+ y( n* g" r6 z) z
& N- M9 T# ?# e- p% z4 r; b2 c0 f3 bHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.7 m' s8 N4 W) j
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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. "& }% g+ x# M5 o5 d) H9 m2 V
+ \# b! k. r, ?8 H. o! Q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。8 |* c' S0 U* j+ V1 n. o1 Q" {% d
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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。/ _+ ?1 D( s' Y+ M, [# k
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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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& L5 X6 T: |2 r/ ~: J: h8 v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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