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4 ~- ~' w/ ]8 H# N5 L. t. y/ UOne 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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: B0 c u5 V. d! w+ ^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”。- E( J! z" o5 h) |& n2 s- y* @
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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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/ k2 F2 M) Y* _" g% x( y' }; m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。! F% H* }# H. @
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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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( P1 e' G* R2 E5 e8 P6 V5 `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。! m5 [' e. Y4 A! n+ k6 z5 c
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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.$ }. b* N- f+ U- p' t2 u4 r V5 b
+ B6 }" W3 t: ]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。: L! [: v0 e: Q- T$ C4 [0 e% \
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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.& D, c& c0 {: W/ _( X/ A
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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。# |3 _$ s( w' q& ?: F$ W, K! S9 E
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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./ N- r- j& n) A# {
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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。- V$ w8 W; J& N: J' f- D
; ~; x2 M- j! D; A3 qThe 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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2 c# ]7 p; T% S' B8 b6 U( X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。/ ^! `7 b/ D8 e
7 g% F# q9 v: u7 cYou 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. , E+ J$ L6 H1 }' B9 x8 h$ p
8 |0 a& W5 g" N" \% @) e6 O7 K. n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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7 K: X. a* d' i" R: K" THaving 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。1 t6 X6 z2 G' j f, C
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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. "! I4 i! H6 W% h* e' |% ]
7 ?& z$ X% x6 M0 z, ^5 G& a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。8 ~0 T, u7 b/ p4 C8 z$ i- V' F
' J! L( i. d& s; S! j2 q- \# dTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.3 ^8 z; z% z8 A3 \+ i; o+ L
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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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! d7 w- T) R9 b! h' A" n6 u+ gLife. 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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