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" b4 M; k1 |8 j* d5 hOne 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." C+ n2 a2 ]' X) a h9 s. |- q$ k, L8 P
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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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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.4 }7 B* F( C) g5 ~1 u2 y( P! x
3 N6 T, w# t. I: _: X+ `/ w7 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。% k* O6 [. g, U
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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.
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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。: P9 W% ~5 ~3 h
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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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: a# S; r$ J8 ~# t% K& L# o% UWhen 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。( X* p' e6 n% l3 i
s% p* Z" `, Q. t; c* z, ?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.+ a9 ?* B- m; w1 L
( M o( X2 `2 f) `) V) O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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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.+ [! Q Y5 y, P8 H7 |& F
+ S3 V. ^, r+ f* I: ^/ U# W1 h" r( H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.
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# T- a7 S5 D3 Z3 `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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You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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" E/ g# c* s" U5 }1 |2 W0 Z& Y8 v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.
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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。1 d% Z. r& {+ r0 k+ @
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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. "( R, l$ D. p+ ?- u; s+ F
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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。( u0 h! z6 g) F% w, Q
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.4 I. h% o& f7 }4 F- Q% c
& E7 e# l) r+ @“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。& s* z: j: X( t2 z: u* ^8 g/ @# l' e
) y; n, w4 b$ m5 d3 |7 Q+ ~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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3 z1 z$ z! g: h/ b6 ?% I( H. t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”。0 s+ l; h! i( c1 C
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