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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.9 J! ]0 I" c ^( t& 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”。+ f# F" d5 t" k; Y( h6 }0 v
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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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4 ]1 k0 g9 w: P% w9 q# r) O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。' b3 A3 p s: A
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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.& c/ z5 i* w+ c R; m F
) N% Z; `& L! E. U5 l- M" r3 ?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。& X; J1 ^" U# W: p5 ?- l; g3 s
, q" _2 \; ~/ [" G$ l K7 v2 ?% J1 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.5 p; E0 U& w; ?" V
/ A' r7 C) v$ Q* f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。- {3 j2 h" H8 F$ Z# @3 ~* O
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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." y1 k) E* T- ]3 W& {" D
$ M1 N: L9 S/ r- t' j5 H5 L% ~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。/ }1 k9 E) V0 h& c! Y3 d- i
! z( {7 X# }; n2 K, ^$ p! C* P TBut 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.5 h O' v) t: j1 a/ L
n( c* m7 L5 K0 s: S6 a; p2 g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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* R' H/ H( j5 O/ {2 O: `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.; v, m0 Y9 }* a; ?. S; G
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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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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. % ?' s2 N9 G% z J( Y
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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。$ Z! p. p9 M8 e. T5 J! K
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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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: z1 F- |5 U* T, M! t3 u你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。7 d& N; z9 ~" B) ^' Y8 l9 z% F
9 n2 a& {4 H. aHaving 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。5 D4 i" N; y% O* C5 f; y* y; E
" c' _- S, m/ [2 n/ y1 gFor 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. "# \1 H- {( C" f/ A
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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。: N# X$ p8 P3 ^/ h' ]& I* s
. g7 k) R6 C; k2 V {7 O2 pTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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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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