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8 p& ^ w$ E4 d2 O) _7 b& \6 \, D& hOne 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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+ ]2 h) O8 `) l; q) K% v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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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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& y2 }& W8 R1 s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。+ |4 t2 }" |0 y" {1 t6 N3 M2 m
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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.: v- v! A2 i9 T6 I4 D
- Y! H/ I! b/ d9 d7 \" z6 g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。- q9 v; _4 v) T, X4 c( |
1 e, F0 U4 l( y% EA 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.) ^1 H- d8 W- [* z
' d ]$ v4 B; Z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。: J. Z' s% h' M) Z3 I6 [
+ c) I, O/ j- M0 W: b# P/ YWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.
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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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" t G8 d2 j/ P1 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.
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+ t w& ~% H) W5 l& q/ Q/ i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。6 I+ A7 K( k8 K2 S$ z b# v
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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.$ `; T; |2 m! Z0 _* i
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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。6 G7 L- L2 i6 N8 c: ]. w
/ Z9 |0 F, `9 p6 v, V4 {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.
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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。6 V! ^5 G" N! |. q6 J! f: J) I
* _) B# f6 D1 g4 cYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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$ P, U5 s# o$ y! ?& w# A7 ~你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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& Z2 _) x# i* O2 HHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him., U2 t, m8 I# d$ i8 R }' z
; i% [) L4 A9 `# D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。3 S N9 ?& t5 M1 n+ L1 [
9 C* E4 o0 A/ }% _7 s( Y- q) VFor 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. "3 v1 l: }& t: O, e' A) }! _( s
+ g' h4 C( P! U/ \) _2 V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。1 s F# o V. _8 n
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.6 _6 a5 |0 @1 _8 R% J
" s5 I2 _. r: ]“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。* V1 V6 F5 F$ q$ l; q- m( r
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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* S# ?( t$ s
) ]% N6 O7 X# T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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