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/ a6 z# g% j. ~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.
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; c- B% r0 I; w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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If 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。# Z5 P1 t% B" H8 P
2 C. w0 U# k. nSome 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.
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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。1 y4 T+ V5 U% F4 I6 K
1 f: h+ B3 ?+ r# OA 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.- j( f+ ?; e/ \1 B N$ b+ v6 z& k4 b
' u6 c/ o O2 Y; P: Q r8 T3 V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。5 o8 {7 M$ ], ]# z
# F9 T( {* N3 {) c. A3 Z9 v, y9 J9 VWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.; z0 U4 F, \0 M. `5 ~5 q, R- v
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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.
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( H5 L6 A! E" a: `; ~+ r0 b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。: N$ _% T }" z% e0 _+ \
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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.; R2 m D" y( O
3 J1 H" g; T) s" 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。$ |$ F' A' [ R6 o( Y; h
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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. 0 F, [5 J- f4 e0 q8 R$ |2 g+ l3 S4 t
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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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$ f$ o6 y0 M( X" _$ C8 |$ oYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.1 L9 E) A1 N5 {
, w* s. k9 M% Y6 o T你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。$ p7 z$ Y2 e% C# Y5 y8 B, u
# k7 y4 O6 C6 Q5 H1 O: WHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.: [" \& f) K( ?: ~
7 Z* s8 n5 a+ D2 Z- ~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。, A' g% b. E- z. ?" p
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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. "% c! y* `) }, I% x& E2 K
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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。. w3 K. D: h& z( P" I0 v
9 \/ b5 a0 {$ R2 y2 _. lTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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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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" j* N5 x7 ~2 N+ l7 G7 DLife. 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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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 j, n# n( r2 A! h1 H" L/ |2 v% f
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