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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." {: e$ j. f5 A6 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”。
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4 U8 c/ z$ q7 o, e- lIf 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。0 b+ }6 W7 n* e: P* ?3 L. E$ l4 y
, L2 [9 z5 v6 t, G; F6 ]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.; I: z j6 u" z- Y7 x
+ G* H* T4 ^2 e8 g/ L# a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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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.
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/ M" I* r2 n& R2 U4 e4 Y; m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.5 J' Q- B, D8 g6 A4 Z) {7 U
3 |2 j# p. R. O# @1 m. ~" ^' v0 t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。 C4 h5 y* ^8 F1 j$ E; y3 F( K
7 f% }! Q9 N/ R2 w' z7 d8 q& KBut 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 k% ^3 o& o
- r' z+ c/ @$ v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.( M+ u, f$ X- q5 |' r# d3 Y7 v
3 }; p3 | u+ @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. / t; o& X, j8 a
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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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$ z; T7 v6 ]& L3 H. F+ j# a5 J/ l- pYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.+ ^7 t9 o) J* p, |# q0 F8 j# C- Z0 V7 D
0 [ X. V ?1 w( ?/ B你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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: C% Q- g- {/ ?. }. YHaving 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。! X, `" u6 N* R8 ?# h V
3 w4 z& u }) S" W6 W" `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. "& M' c( p. C6 P& R
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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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! |* L/ E) a) H5 j' e2 X/ lTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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) Y$ C9 \" B* y2 Z) u“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."# v: h, H ~) N' R0 X
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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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