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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. p: l6 {- o4 T; B" i
% Z" K2 u+ H! n2 I7 }$ |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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; n7 A& e; M# E& o7 R+ ]! u6 [4 o1 yIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.; }/ c1 o p+ h j+ {0 H: C
$ f6 X% R% U. W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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* k9 L" B6 G% vSome 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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: K8 A8 V y; 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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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., k/ T! B. Z( i+ h# v! 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。
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4 ` J8 P* K% n' m7 \% W: v- s: MWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.' }3 S2 ]& x! i, E: a
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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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8 F$ o9 l" R; `. z- z2 {' `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 E: [0 X- q1 }1 M; r- H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。/ f& N* y! I6 _3 Y
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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.6 ^! g8 c( q0 v: n
' M- ?4 K2 U9 t& }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。) x, W. t, h6 L% p# K# U- {
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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。' X# P3 z2 Q% [/ T: }
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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.7 g+ [5 w' q8 s2 p5 k0 O6 M) v
, }9 x- ?1 u3 e你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。5 ~: o* D5 k5 g9 ?
& }* T9 o$ @: ?. T* P& [6 b9 g' s/ AHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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- R& ?0 N& J5 C7 c5 S' S+ q! ]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。* b1 h8 M! g0 H0 K+ I
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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. "" X* D' I! F8 U
J% v; o6 I' W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。6 b; A: J9 L! m0 R
- ]) ~$ Z, z$ W# OTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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; K; i j4 s, F- n. F“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。$ p% c' |9 `9 V% a* O1 Q0 ?
. ?3 e7 z7 n/ |( o( x) r( JLife. 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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2 t) h Y: z: Y$ }* t' R I7 a8 ?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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