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' s$ V5 F; D8 m b$ z) G0 |) cOne 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.% q1 Y: \) j6 a
7 o) N# e, Y# ?1 h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”。+ a% x A) s1 a
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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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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 G6 y) |9 j+ z9 U# z1 |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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6 U3 ?( i7 z' p# k& m8 A) @2 ]& fA 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.+ W3 n" N: K& B; u( U/ k
8 |* S+ D: K( N* L3 g5 w! N0 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。+ R. t1 ]. z/ ~% d$ W7 e
# ~- Q# R8 B5 ~6 M$ o/ p, CWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy., c, A4 R |9 ?/ n
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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。
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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.
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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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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.6 X3 [9 q/ I0 K8 j' r" ?" | j& Z
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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。# l; J1 q5 J- _. u! r6 ^ { R
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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. 9 x1 \: q0 I' X" B7 \( ], F# X: ?
, q! ^6 ~# W( X: o2 d! u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。4 l. ^8 Y% [& ~2 m h
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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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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.# z) K, a8 V% x
1 t3 D* m+ r1 n ?5 E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。$ m" V+ ?0 o* j3 w( n$ y# J
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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. ". ?/ ^, t8 Q& _ S
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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。- u5 v# g" ?7 l- a5 X$ g" u1 H
! j# @4 t- a1 T1 O9 J$ V1 \+ |Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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5 c( d/ Z, S' {+ C“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”。& `; S* r0 j3 H1 o! e% W' g
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