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+ @5 X+ w) o) u6 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.
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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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* l! t6 h, s( \- W( Q& tIf 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。
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1 u8 k+ S2 ?2 z: D; Z$ gSome 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., b) z- @- z0 _" E$ f! p0 l0 F
* [. N5 c1 C, l* B" o+ U) k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。7 u3 V1 X! w; b7 O
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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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8 ?! q" u( Q0 |" N" }+ [When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.4 D" e7 a: d/ Y8 H
; `& r+ T, `+ o* N% F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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9 b7 X- I/ v9 R3 ?* |7 a( fBut 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.5 ~5 S1 B( B" ?* s6 K2 d# a1 ]
% P7 H2 o6 u) L3 y }( w" ?% ?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。! M4 ^3 G9 Y2 X- I2 F$ G
7 Q3 o$ X; x' 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.
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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。
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- [4 Y8 C7 n. x3 b1 M5 l bYou 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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6 V% y- j; M; u. x6 K; r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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9 T7 s+ |5 u; F4 {( xYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.9 a) ]% u# i( T/ [+ U
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 o$ Y4 i5 q- l
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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7 X0 O! T# N+ w+ | ^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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6 G% n" ]4 @- r% t' qFor 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. "6 N$ g- R% r. T. @0 O
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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。# y8 X3 y4 h7 L$ O
" m2 L0 v; u8 A0 p4 ]+ E# iTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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3 v! f0 e8 _2 V5 \' g y- z“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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" y9 e+ ^) H" y" _# LLife. 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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