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/ a" f# }; Z6 H0 E8 Y' AOne 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./ @' I& ^6 b1 q
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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”。: |1 O5 H k! x; J2 m( }: `
* R- G$ H1 f/ a% H2 |, _- \If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.! I/ w u! g3 @! d+ B, D: G/ q
# X" S* [: E9 p$ l! }# w& V- D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。3 ]7 z% O/ J7 |
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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." `( u4 D; d8 P3 Q W6 b9 \
1 @ H( J' D, p: I. u7 _5 H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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) `% X1 u9 Z) d/ z& T# @1 V/ [A 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.& b7 X8 Y+ P- |; Q) w" T
, n6 z- N/ e' p; p# x8 h- P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。* ?9 M3 a8 M3 |1 N8 T& T* \, S
7 |2 `: Q" Q$ ^- fWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy." y1 E+ X( V) X) R# l+ |
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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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- N, u. N& l4 f' K* E; e8 ?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.( ^2 L7 a3 T E) Q; m
( ]! ?) \% i4 Y! @ x1 A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。) j3 J; [% Q# J4 |4 s) j* _
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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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" r3 B B4 U. d T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。* e9 D/ B/ G& t6 Q8 u: m {# U
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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. # C" p" ]1 P$ m- Z( [) S' D( k
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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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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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+ a! L8 \5 _1 |) F+ Z& x F; V你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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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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* t% D" ?+ u* y) C ]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. "
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8 h. R2 h( a- M# |+ Z; Z$ m0 Z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。( D% Q" `9 |3 Q' H
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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m' Q* Y2 h2 ~" ?“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."" f) _* |& K# S
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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”。1 x7 h$ Z" }6 n; D/ `9 ?0 M- l
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