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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.# a- z$ S% C: V1 p
4 ]- L! c1 o" m8 z0 T* t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”。 x- v' ^7 B' f
* A9 ~) d( N, e0 o4 |* pIf 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。% I+ R7 t o2 M7 G
) Q% g. [5 z: ESome 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.
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" U& v: y A1 r- Q$ Z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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. z' u+ S1 N6 D7 P9 O% GA 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.3 T# L+ t# g$ i* u+ l
' b- T! z- O# _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。2 i* Y: D; { l' m
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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。; e! Q+ ~0 k- _* w# m
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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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8 C6 O7 N8 d& r' b- u, P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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( S! ~6 B3 e, \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.; N) x- s5 l, N3 V
/ P- M$ C5 @3 ~/ h5 K2 y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。7 F5 z$ o" N# ^
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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.
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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。! X0 ?" x+ M( s8 ]
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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./ s' j1 y4 C) U; P4 Y/ `# |7 s1 S1 w3 u1 @
6 n, |2 g+ q+ [你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 i. ?3 J4 ]/ Z- G" R% |5 k$ N3 r
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.- A& K# Z9 J0 c4 z# U6 t" g
1 C/ W- O9 T, Z% u0 {2 e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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* Z/ z& L; ^ t+ t& ]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. "* H7 G- z) e' H4 F/ [3 c
& H! o( p4 q7 u" _5 r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." z& Y! K6 r1 V# K0 m/ j, K8 h
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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。; v. j. ?7 L. {2 n. D) j+ B
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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."+ |; l6 J+ |- {9 Q; c! W
' _, W. r( A* A3 m5 N2 X+ }9 a$ `3 `' K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”。9 b {) q- b% {' W- B' i* h& f
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