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$ ?7 [; c, E! o2 \0 [) COne 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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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”。7 Q& g5 q$ d7 z; b& d [
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.) H# [" @! i3 F. b0 M" r1 X
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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。9 u, A! |- N, U+ S% O2 S" z1 `% O
) }' F' m n& V7 @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.% e' R% h Z/ v0 g
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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。7 r0 g; F' _# Q" [1 p% A! P
/ B d3 {, a- IA 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.& V3 `; w7 {1 I5 z
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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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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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0 {' [4 K: r7 V5 c& Y$ @ k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。: Q+ T7 @* g1 Q |: V
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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.- B( D; D$ X/ ?2 L+ P
7 ~6 ]% y& v# ]. o( I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.
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# F3 G7 \' Q! ?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。( v8 t" O* H6 f" z3 m2 `, N4 C
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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. * J- A" n) ?8 G
0 h5 c! @ K' c9 \: H8 M2 C6 w3 C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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, X) @, l; ]% @- d" P0 `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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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。& i" x/ w4 U) Q" t5 E
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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. "- v" ~$ S7 G3 \
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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。
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.) l) v2 U5 Q3 |7 i
2 c0 n3 H7 C. Y+ _( L2 ^“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。
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. `8 R7 L' f( aLife. 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."3 B {# ^: ^6 \& k* f2 N& n
d; j V8 N( o3 w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”。2 A1 K* `, l7 l, c( p* y, `" h) z
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