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; f& B$ ^% m; OOne 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.) T8 q& g6 S: H: Z+ j4 f" ~2 \
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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”。3 t6 L4 g$ J" a0 E
s2 r* b( m6 C# L, ?If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.( i7 [6 o9 ?( L2 v
k$ H! ]% m" p& ~4 d9 R' \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。* w" \* C3 e. D1 t7 @$ ]) ]
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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.0 K; T$ R* }8 E# x, G
8 i' A" {; C9 S# S# H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.
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. T$ ^ y: p; ^9 G$ C( o" y1 f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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k& U' l& k( G0 nWhen 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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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.7 o: \) i# b( T* J
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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。% ?$ X6 @8 J: x. @% B% S3 U
* Y q% o( ?0 k- t0 PThe 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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$ E2 c- U! c4 j, b% G8 R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。, \) A% G" M# r( B) t
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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 ~0 J0 e5 L }( z, B: k) y: p4 @
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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。
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( I5 E- x( g; S( q& NYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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6 W3 D0 F1 Y: I7 F% |" U你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。: G7 P5 W- P$ a& v0 T3 r+ F
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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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" o# J& d8 F# T$ K# R) y$ H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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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. "
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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。, U; d( _- C3 h0 Q6 c, H
& b" ]& x. S( m* MTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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7 C2 v% z- x* N- \" V; |. W“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。' L7 R& ?. {1 E5 T% x
. K# ]' i& ]& j7 ULife. 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."2 l6 g W7 } N3 z+ o1 k
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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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