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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.- K6 r; E2 c! y( H. l& v' s
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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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2 f. B) S- }# O, l* n0 V9 fIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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1 [) q# g* \& Z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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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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8 n( M6 n0 K2 T" l4 H1 E {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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9 }: _+ L6 J. ^% f# L! m# QA 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。0 [0 E3 n0 ~0 R3 E
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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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: }: q" t( ?% z( H$ e @ N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。" F' z' Q) n0 H( U# _
9 X" M5 f3 C/ t; `3 N0 S$ xBut 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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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。6 v( d2 r2 P" L% B. s* ^3 Z2 V
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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.
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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。) T: ^0 d) _5 L) B
5 G+ G9 u& E( c: {. ?/ iYou 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) F, k e0 H+ P+ 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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9 k' ^! Z2 L# u+ ]7 D8 vYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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4 [ o N5 f2 H, w! t6 a你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。2 b o; I$ e" w5 B5 |) x
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.9 ?0 r& a) E' O: K% V8 m0 T4 ^
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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. ": b% ^+ `, F- q0 H. v( d h
7 a- @' z, Z, \" M5 I) @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 `+ A6 E$ u1 s% {* d2 n0 ^
7 R: `5 G- K8 M. i" iTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.( x- G- U5 j* c9 u' r
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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。' Z( d7 c5 c5 n( o' B" P( v
( F1 d {) p7 u: O7 z+ T/ pLife. 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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; m2 S a9 i5 r2 A2 r) c+ G& L7 B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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