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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., [2 H, w7 b$ V5 s, a2 L3 r; W6 @
7 |* B% H* R; N. D3 k6 `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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. |- f5 X; `$ ]If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.5 v0 H: s6 V7 F# ^/ }4 Z, g; g
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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。" Y, y3 x( _6 j( U x
1 g1 T' K, d, R$ C3 USome 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.) h7 n' S2 c" @# g/ t t0 a8 L
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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。
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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.& r' b- ^3 t; y/ J: A, o
# v, }8 Y8 D. ]/ e$ ~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。+ D2 J- M( g, y* G3 P- P0 h P; x
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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.% Q: j' r# `. n4 O8 M
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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。1 P' d" k0 p$ B5 f0 Z* q3 H# k
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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.
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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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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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- k, ?/ z& X* ~1 K/ }( ]) }% @7 V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。; t; u: f1 C! O: [0 r) j& k, D
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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; P8 T' z) e6 ^' e& F
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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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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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" N7 \8 }+ B5 p _; a' X! G你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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+ A( {/ r8 \; y3 \ n1 wHaving 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。
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, ^8 v3 Q3 {" `" {. V2 ?- N! w8 U1 W) kFor 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. "; \3 i6 n6 h" x* A6 K( x: T- u8 a/ G
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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。4 M# A( D ?5 m$ U; h/ b
" P3 o% G. `; c2 tTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.- v% J7 M9 L0 n; V/ w8 x/ B8 Z" y
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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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/ D: {( }# Y& b- f6 q8 z% b0 KLife. 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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$ b( Q% i% p) A/ _- Y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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