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% q* W$ S; _$ C3 q& ZOne 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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/ ~) g0 s2 h# O, x t N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”。4 j: l# _% }" D
5 @( Y2 M9 N, }8 e4 T1 bIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. J" \; g# U: v
) ? _) K. I, Q/ D7 n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.1 X4 h2 j+ ?/ K+ B- b
' ^$ k5 _$ v% L$ A6 o3 [) X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。. h5 V* p) m$ k- F. C
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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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2 E3 f" z. o; z3 t0 V' P- s4 fWhen 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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7 X/ r, { r; BBut 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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1 L# B$ b& Y$ ?: G! v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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& `2 H- e' v( G1 Y! O' N3 KThe 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. 7 Z% s' ? w0 G& w2 e
M# C/ x# d/ z+ }5 n" ?! }7 y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。3 \: N) j. M+ ]! \( |
" p+ {, y K3 C' N( x- ~% i! ]You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.$ n2 a7 Y8 g. \# R
6 E9 D& O( R5 l- D你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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8 |, O7 u' p. m: V# pHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.' p% C, v2 Q p$ Q5 Q( R
6 z- ^3 R5 t2 e3 P% P- q: b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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2 C" p' i% u$ c; xFor 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. "
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' N1 u I3 Q. |" N# b% ^. m% `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。& e1 h4 q) }1 ~- k
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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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1 g. N& b" h2 x- D/ w4 ]6 u& }( T“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。' j( P L! _' e% S* x: |( L( Z$ 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."
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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”。4 o8 c4 j" A5 M5 s
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