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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.6 p" @$ O( u- \. f; h+ k% b
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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”。1 d# l L9 D# S: x8 H. k
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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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3 T* m% @& @/ o7 X( E. JSome 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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0 a; G' E$ C6 I& Q- b+ k- a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.7 S, n5 ?* S* k: t. y# t% G# T- c
" o1 h5 X9 i% ~3 J' N1 u; q0 W K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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# G4 J1 G) p U+ D& G( `" BWhen 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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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。( V# ]& _! d7 c7 }, J# V1 S
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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.+ c$ l, m4 }* x
4 l; k! u# S' D6 q( U7 H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。# b+ T5 R: i3 m
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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." J; _6 a4 l0 i& ^. g8 g
4 m' f+ A& w2 a7 E+ w% d( V2 x9 X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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2 }; b0 r+ F# ?8 `+ s& mYou 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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9 {1 M) e. ~. E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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0 X, r1 y; X4 M3 E9 A" kYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.% r6 |! J z- M
+ s) o( t7 h' Z5 S, P你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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+ X/ @, ?% L* g1 u3 ^" g# }# oHaving 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。& b/ b9 n) g9 q( r T
+ ~ y) c9 A# v9 w Y7 c$ l" K0 v& AFor 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. "" k5 x" ~& B8 d0 a; j- j( c3 m; X
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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。) j! r, U8 `9 V* L: l& B
' f8 J9 t9 G: r5 R6 @Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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, e7 H7 b8 p4 x% n6 x. _“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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( v2 c/ l- M* h" S0 N5 WLife. 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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# z I+ N5 ~0 p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”。( s% o2 p U& _7 y# E6 j
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