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, O1 O! f8 y& p) jOne 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 W* z4 X. V% p) Q4 M n$ p) C# J$ t
$ l. W$ T" o* e2 d% 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”。- I, U$ j* h' n9 @) Q/ C
( p2 O7 F) \0 f( K+ P. B4 w1 o dIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.& [* S# _2 ]" q" w7 |
9 |$ d8 }6 O0 I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。9 q w. P2 v* I( ?! `* o2 s
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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.$ I+ c& b2 r' J! W
7 ^5 u+ Y2 o2 B8 B. }; i% F$ r3 s- 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。, R( I4 W6 w2 a- x0 `0 Z# ]
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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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% l+ j6 h2 Z( z" K) t0 c6 H8 j/ g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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. f) \; L7 f5 x3 X0 q5 I( b4 ]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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6 o+ T7 Q) c/ M& B7 w/ H& q% e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。 ^% r" n2 N; o1 _
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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./ b, v" ^/ j8 z
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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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) `6 y/ _% Y1 W5 p1 kThe 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.
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3 B* C& T) ?+ y4 k# y$ z3 ^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。5 w2 s1 S' Z+ h! }! L+ Q
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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.
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2 M7 [7 R+ M! _. f# T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.- ~$ m- q2 K2 J6 m
! V6 E5 a, t2 J( A, z) x2 n. O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.
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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。" R- q9 O8 d# g% h
/ Y$ @! r( z4 o6 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. "8 i- M, c9 p" d/ g( f& q/ |
* ~) I4 }' V% s; Z5 q: p2 x' J3 q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。9 Q; h1 u0 ~/ D
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. e6 [- y- T5 E6 E% t. j$ K
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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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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”。
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