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5 J: g0 C5 ]) y5 E8 m, f- y" E. i; m# lOne 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 a! s+ K+ V Y9 R$ F
# N- R; T% k: d9 }: K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”。- ?1 Q4 f; Y* n0 @
% D% k% r" t O/ D7 |- A$ R& GIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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1 u" P% A. J3 J }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.- {2 N+ j/ O4 R- A3 G
/ B2 e* }7 B2 M: N4 J \1 e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。( B+ C; K1 z5 O6 Y. Q
8 h$ [) W) X" V( n; ?2 p( F$ ~/ oA 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.: a$ U$ m! X! R5 S- z( m2 M+ R
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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。- z6 b4 p% S* u$ y
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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.
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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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5 Z; A5 Y; `1 ~. X' r8 w7 J( p/ 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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, @( H( k5 M F% i9 g! \) u U( q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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) N3 ~3 Y; U# p+ k$ DThe 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.) ?; J$ ~& Q: @2 G: v
) t* k t$ C( J; p: Q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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( _) E7 p% b3 EYou 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. a+ K7 ]- e' I1 C% a% Z# b* |
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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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) y8 G1 u8 p( {3 d" W8 S) A" oYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.3 g% F- F. w& Z" j; G- U
6 ^: C8 _; O* A) _) R5 c你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。" C7 s F5 H* Z. X
4 j0 h6 v' v- d: D. oHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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, K( {5 H/ F, P* T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。" _6 K" E) I1 i% Y3 l
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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. "/ r0 D+ D# t" I( S! P N0 n
; I; e5 Z! y! b1 R, R% _! D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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“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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0 W, Y3 y- t, _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."/ E5 _* s0 [3 \% a* C7 w
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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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