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; x* r1 x( W/ {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.
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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”。; S/ y7 \# \' O5 T8 [5 Y
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.6 J8 |+ U& Z! q
, ~; z" x3 g; D( p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。* M) Q8 a. X6 A, n( p9 }' C- 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.
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0 {) i6 q/ i; ^ e# U1 K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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5 \6 M6 H, M! L9 h, Z6 {: ?0 S0 K I6 PA 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.4 @7 B% Q ?. M( \
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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。3 x, [9 I! W: e- ~. D2 e1 V% p
. Y Y3 b D- ~; dWhen 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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& m% w$ F! @; L8 t% 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。9 y7 i+ j2 Q" p0 C! K3 s
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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.1 G0 X+ x5 Y' f% Y- B7 A) h
2 Y$ c5 u1 z0 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。6 m. w$ [: f/ o$ u9 Z
$ y% c: P. p9 y" J0 G8 ]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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- ?1 P& ^$ [. A9 n, c! j/ E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。8 R7 Q4 H& v& r+ L% D# P
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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. * K+ e# Q+ d/ s
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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。
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; Q+ p8 N6 p, B6 R* ~) YYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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6 n6 |* `8 K; A4 d4 w你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。5 s% f$ A; M, w0 w; q& f' R
, q8 H0 _$ a5 C2 x* U2 b- U2 ZHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.: C. C" v9 B. J& O$ m
f% z. L, ?1 g# o+ J+ x# q& O# ]& I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。; V5 b/ W2 C5 s: T% ~
* O/ x* Q4 A$ S8 J2 k9 R7 o' A& TFor 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. ") w! R) s# q- A% z0 O/ c6 {
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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。
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.- B6 W- }$ b0 c. p7 F9 W% N
# D0 `2 }+ w& {( ~! |“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."1 b6 H; J5 h1 s) t, F
: _! R& d% V/ p, f) j) O- o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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