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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.! F; t$ x' Y/ k( O5 ]0 F$ e
8 v8 K( E# Z6 M/ L, {4 b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”。/ L+ M7 y* C8 T
+ w' p3 H$ `: Y( c, T; H) nIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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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。
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4 Y( e6 f5 U! o1 u$ rSome 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.8 [* X) F7 [8 B
! l5 D' x4 a( j9 q$ `; \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。/ G6 \: F. B! }
6 w# g: P X+ u* YA 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.; r4 I5 S4 e9 T1 Y# Z6 H
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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。' \, G) Q$ {. y9 |3 ~7 U* U
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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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' j: z; h& s9 O" ]) ~7 Y; K7 ^0 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。: d. m* {/ O! j( V; ? I
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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.# v7 V) `$ B# e& ~3 S. f) a
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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。
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+ P* |1 E/ F5 C5 t( g4 `5 O: ?+ g( ^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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' N6 a0 |& v/ A3 [$ Y6 O0 K8 D# s B2 X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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6 o+ A& a, ~7 P2 z' V% N, ^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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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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0 g2 e: d- {; c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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$ P" Y$ C3 ^. a. [2 n" z4 J/ jFor 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。
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5 b( i2 A; `. ^1 f. e4 kTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.8 Y9 ?2 v' U# m) R1 f
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“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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4 B6 S: {5 B/ Y* \6 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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* h% \6 `" h9 d) e8 s& [7 u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”。6 E# l; b' m9 s
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