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k- W: R8 j7 L3 a9 o5 `6 wOne 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.. X8 q; c. C$ z- m9 `
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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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0 |/ A+ y' t- P+ r, J6 `$ {7 |4 V3 w! GIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.. a& f$ u9 l& e5 ?/ ]
; k9 n& V1 W0 W' w& 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。 u) P- v9 z# o2 [# m, m; w/ x
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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.; o! i4 B, A2 z6 U# @# ]- M
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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。2 O$ E) b! e9 N! U& q6 w# H4 Z) M
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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.- _. V5 L" _& ?. h, N
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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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% s! P9 b; m$ x2 \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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2 o! J& j$ g7 f( B1 L b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.
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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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5 p4 q* _' E" F! N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。7 R7 b9 `# h0 T+ V( V( \1 G
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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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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。# K; _3 I0 y1 u; W8 v6 n% l0 K* c
" K: }, ^: U3 l. N7 Q {4 @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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/ t: g6 l/ M* s, O( g' w& uHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.; n& _& A9 B' x! G2 b8 F$ m6 ]& k8 e
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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。9 |/ J; E1 l4 O8 M
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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. "# U/ l' d! O- ~* i) p
; M' C8 `7 @+ V L$ v- e+ I1 x/ m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.- u7 O" B/ e3 Z, \) S
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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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# q7 W" z) |( J. C; tLife. 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."; C/ _" N" P0 E/ r
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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”。$ }; K3 }+ }* Y
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