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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.
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* B- c9 E& j2 ?1 O/ l9 a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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# [0 D, C: o+ i/ I+ P8 {* M5 b3 m: yIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.8 q* b" H) P1 B
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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。
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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.; f* E5 l1 ]6 @* |5 i' e
$ T. g# J3 G6 X8 b+ L- A. i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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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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9 N& n/ L4 ?8 P' a( HWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.3 c- s& Y. t* @6 w9 c- j4 v
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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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6 V, y. I- N8 B' N( ]; b3 _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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5 g0 z# C6 Y0 s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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3 ^/ q' l5 z# p' E8 o% A2 ~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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) |7 l0 r0 Y& F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。( ?. _$ F9 c7 p. O! W" F% ^' E
. V" {8 _# f0 G2 i) F$ E9 pYou 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. . ?% N X8 F! m A4 d
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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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: [) X' a4 o/ Y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.8 r' C& O& a' F" O4 v8 L& C7 R9 A
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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。
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0 X; Q+ f/ L! d1 D5 ^7 mFor 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. "1 E6 |5 Z; m0 I7 Q2 j& u" s
; e E% N) T2 `/ u! D* [& 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。
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.8 O5 T! i5 h! X' t
g7 U5 @: e8 i6 I% s“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。$ e- [* ^3 H3 p6 N# o9 \
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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." b+ A/ }4 } Q" Y
3 X5 H( y: a4 L1 Q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”。& U3 w5 U! d; k. K
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