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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.4 m3 M4 R n- ?# `" t/ w: E! D
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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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6 m" L7 O7 [+ P9 {, [If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. B1 f' A6 m0 R' x. Z
- e4 k) B' D& |0 r% m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.$ L2 i% v, Z& E- o5 s9 }
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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. ~0 N* L3 q7 o |3 iA 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.# {( x* P1 w J0 i+ o7 N9 ?* S6 E
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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。
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6 z& M5 O+ ]! _5 a4 j5 E: J3 U# \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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9 t) }% g% ]2 _0 H: D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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$ M/ C. v' j4 B# GBut 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.) l0 \# s7 E# m$ x' X# 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。. o1 r7 }# I+ u9 K ^2 j
c/ }6 x1 R. ?4 ^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。+ P1 ~6 A1 D7 M9 N9 i: y$ t5 Z9 e, ~
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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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( A( N3 ?. _$ b7 a1 Y+ c* y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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! F6 _! \' v7 Q' r: \& _你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。6 }, U: u4 R/ z8 F# W: k
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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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! D% F! P. ^& r. P8 o/ l' F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。+ W3 Y4 k" ?/ V/ a
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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. "- N* y* Q/ j7 i& q2 r0 c. I6 P+ g5 x
' K: d* `. L0 T4 r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。! B' D; p& B/ f/ Z. b; ]9 y) L5 p
\& n7 E5 l- f. _8 A7 N% ^Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.$ \8 U# {1 e( T
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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。% [' X' |. c. ^6 p1 K. v: B
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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."1 `9 @7 D# [! ]/ \1 h) F- V
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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”。5 H8 _4 _6 ~1 u4 \1 ]% l
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