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8 c% Y! J' h5 }* i8 ?2 n! sOne 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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' r6 i o1 p% U1 Q$ d4 ]' c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”。- {5 b7 x3 Q" z
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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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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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) Z9 ~8 i$ m: b+ P/ hSome 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。6 O+ X: x* ` n7 B3 G
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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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* j; X; I# G0 E$ k, a4 n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., c5 `( u; k0 c- ~
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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.6 ^, o+ a; z. a0 R8 e2 S
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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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2 _0 R F+ J/ a7 U, bThe 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.$ y& Q( }) x7 f
8 s; M, i. E7 P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& K9 W1 f3 g A+ a! M9 K
5 y# a! [; d' a! ~! \# J. T* T' VYou 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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- w" ?$ L6 D2 Y7 a9 i% Y, v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.! R5 q* y, B( }$ J8 T6 x& q: d
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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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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.. e% r: {9 w& ?# ?2 u' U- a2 L" ^5 T
; N: s+ q8 F5 b8 s7 f' o( t$ d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. "2 g( I% F1 v, p' f- n
% }7 R: s$ R& G" s. ~9 Z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。# t% v* T3 a0 t3 M# h) o
4 S! D5 V! S, l7 STwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.7 i- n& r# i: |, M* v
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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。
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+ T4 G: d1 s' A% MLife. 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."8 T& q0 T5 x6 X
" C0 I, k* Y+ q) H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”。% K+ E. R# F/ U3 ]2 C" z9 h& l
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