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( Q O7 n% D; X/ n! rOne 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.) _- \2 d9 W8 Y( p- h
; s! k& q. J+ u' L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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+ k6 Q- A6 g# S/ F6 \9 X3 VIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.; o- `2 X% z5 O4 J; l" J
1 R; h ^# I4 P- G7 j, o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。8 J* K2 B* m8 }7 \, d
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Some 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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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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5 s, }/ ^, w8 `" u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.
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# K: c; l& h6 r' `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. J- ^" ^0 o1 T: g7 E3 j) X9 m
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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.% X+ @: |7 m: N: w9 o r0 G8 p
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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。/ \; {: K; d: ?5 M
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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. - g( }/ X) F" O3 c6 Q- A' ]
) O9 G% I2 y3 ~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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5 G3 [& Y* ^7 _- N" wYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.7 E7 I# U9 z/ B: l& h, k( W c7 i/ ?
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。' r3 P/ E u( e# e
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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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. "
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, D5 m! g9 |: T( \) \/ [) X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。
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.1 b" p2 A; v6 S. H0 e- ^+ `
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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。' M) \1 M0 B ?6 k* M2 g
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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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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”。" G" h, H/ w2 Q
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