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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 S' W5 e$ y- W9 F0 k( }
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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”。
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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。5 n; `5 q, y0 v
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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。5 F! } }- h- q% ^
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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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4 |5 D. R$ b7 o1 X' }6 h+ Y; H& \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。 p0 n" f' g B/ o
6 a: }8 e8 D% B( [+ H# ^4 |) o4 n4 pWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.. f' h1 j8 L! w8 ^4 Z( p% b
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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。% e% W9 [5 h/ B8 m" |$ u$ D0 ?
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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.4 Q' M0 f, i6 Y# x, ^5 d6 O$ O8 s5 e
+ \) J$ i# z8 N) A4 t8 `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。4 ^9 M: O1 t1 C: g
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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." l- e& T7 _5 U C
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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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; p7 U( D. `' CYou 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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: E$ ^: }$ U, Q" B" W$ @+ ^" w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.
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1 m4 M$ @/ {% L A s你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。, t4 p. t* N4 r0 [& M/ x+ h
6 A4 Y$ Q2 ]' VHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him./ C- ]9 R1 L8 Y9 ]% a
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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。5 Z* f5 s0 c& j- s- e9 o
. ^5 k0 n/ Z& CFor 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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; I1 @# y2 ?( Z. S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。1 x$ ]3 G( z" i8 d6 i
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.2 n) k( N' k) s
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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。' r" t' w8 y3 z% U* G
6 L) {. `9 m! N3 C1 aLife. 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”。
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