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4 B4 q, c" Y" H }% j8 HOne 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.( K( M5 b, u; T0 R
, T: G0 X6 S2 W4 B' O! f* j* v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”。) ]6 f% ?! `# H4 I0 q% o& m
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.$ U$ |) z5 b/ F1 o2 K, k( ~( r( [
$ }- C6 Z- M i8 N! V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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( @$ K3 z7 o; i8 T* @6 uSome 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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& r/ Y7 j- @/ K. {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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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.$ C% S/ E# `9 \ P9 e7 D- r
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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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& N, I! s0 {& {) {2 z5 ]/ f3 Y6 P# o qBut 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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8 H5 x8 p: O4 n+ M( i M7 E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。! ?' @: i+ P0 T0 b' p1 ~$ d; U
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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.4 G9 L/ K( U" y6 G
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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。$ w- Q4 G5 B) I* F
+ o) K8 a8 g3 d* R3 c; ?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. 6 {; i( `( n& J
$ K. U: [% U1 X4 f0 w! C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.7 d- o% i5 E0 t, X
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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.& K* h# g+ |5 k
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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。% v+ D9 V' {( t8 \( `
( I- N. n2 H4 x+ TFor 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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" q, M& b1 {+ i1 `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。& p8 }) @) B7 S4 S/ ?4 o
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.9 P2 N; Y/ o8 U @: C
9 I% y: h v# f4 G“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。* I) h' c7 U2 j6 S% d
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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.". p4 x0 o" W: N) W, n2 z& |
* \/ I$ s, G: `- L7 E3 K) J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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