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2 n; R6 v: z) \2 U, tOne 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.3 k; B) e( _# y& S# D# `( S) E
2 z' L/ w$ E9 \7 |2 }: H Q2 T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”。; L2 e7 k; A% H e
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.0 u- b9 P& ^5 F
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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。- D/ g7 m1 n! k. l( D
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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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# W* U' ]9 ` G* F1 ]$ F9 Z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。0 d% M6 E% ]' u @7 v
& M2 B+ `% e1 ~, [/ H! I8 M" AA 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.
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9 ?2 c1 i9 e z4 U8 U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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When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.3 |) K- ?- _7 Y6 _# _% x. R& l( a
- q6 i' Q, z( q8 L4 [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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, z4 O5 F9 f/ m8 |2 P: m$ ~1 \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。+ c3 O; X) }& |$ l6 `% R
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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., f2 h* x/ r0 T: ]! `
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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。' L2 G2 U4 _2 V0 y k( l2 r
: L' f/ P* M/ e7 G0 ZYou 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. 3 W& R! g& q/ U- [9 R
$ k9 `4 z1 b& v6 Z2 O( [( A" t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。0 F g5 ^! `, b. Z( d3 l
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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.+ u8 T, V+ P+ D3 S! _% ]* Q9 C7 l
% H* a* Z% S! C8 b/ @; X) r你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。1 F8 L$ w4 L7 I" k, _, h
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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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+ Y# B. M {8 R9 L7 m6 s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。% u# O) S/ L& g; E/ a
( D8 l2 a5 p3 J8 L4 n* T: pFor 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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% ^& @9 k' t9 [% w9 e9 |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.
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8 R9 i) ]9 W. \9 f$ ]8 l“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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+ L: ?# L! _7 @+ r- A/ I8 F7 `" xLife. 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.", e$ ^0 Y, p/ m$ r f4 E w
4 s \+ n' t; y* f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”。% `- g0 b1 l! i
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