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* z9 }3 p$ {+ m# @( dOne 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./ t& q$ W$ C+ }: r# a7 ^' {4 o9 W, x7 z
9 h- C, A5 d( |' f% U3 ~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”。% x1 y: z& d5 X6 p$ `# D" q6 v
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.$ `8 W( C: }' c; t; K) O
, |6 M w* ^& ]/ v& }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。1 n( W. B- b2 x; r- }0 x6 l5 R
; w5 j& E" c; u$ T: E' ^8 pSome 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.) g3 i# T8 r1 T' g' X
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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。- ]0 W( K' P1 ~; T
. z4 N6 Q7 M' E5 s3 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.
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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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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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) s9 j# P$ n2 ~: K- B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。, e5 L! y& U5 d& M7 C
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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.
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/ S: q0 t V c8 A7 x, I B/ }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 D/ F' Z5 A1 a: w' c
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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.
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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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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. * }. k2 W2 a% i3 `
& {) G1 @3 O( a8 @+ D' G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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6 o6 q" f* l' ~ t" DYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.1 B: s% ^2 T: t
( {, B8 U. f+ A: f! e7 \3 F; ^) J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./ z; F$ G$ |5 S- {. b
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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。! U. U ~7 l8 i q
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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. "4 ~! S( q d& X( b# M
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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。
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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。7 m, k2 F# }% e T7 e5 {& e. a
- U; j+ z8 K/ o+ ^" nLife. 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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