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P) w; x# y$ tOne 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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. b- X6 G) T! @! n$ c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”。( t! p; \2 V2 K, F
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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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2 ]; w! `0 @- d" Q4 y; Z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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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.; w# ~+ U, u, o+ E9 B, a% ?
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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.) b6 V. k4 z4 J+ s0 k/ G
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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。+ E1 |4 v% A- a% n8 t( e
4 I3 r/ {- s' U! O$ b8 Z7 Z% G, k- ~When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.! G# i4 q- |2 T3 y, U/ G
0 i: p2 ?) U% ]( V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。6 u- g' T6 R7 s- t3 \6 b# b+ u$ ~4 n
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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。9 S6 c/ o, M2 R0 E7 s$ d, X
. v/ J ]/ |4 S3 o6 @% X% {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.) L9 d. l/ Z% o- ~7 d, |+ [/ M
/ Z; W8 I! }3 O( G- `5 ]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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' P" b4 u6 V; {6 P' w* Z% ^2 kYou 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。$ c$ T5 C8 D) m9 h j
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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.; ?$ @8 n/ A0 u6 H6 E& I/ S. z5 M
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。- B' N$ h J1 D S9 D
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him." w/ _ l# \7 n4 h- d" L7 c
5 i* ~7 G" o3 t/ i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。 }! e4 [- R9 X9 Q' R* T
& f6 C- x3 @& S8 ? K7 SFor 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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w7 E' ]' o( C7 vTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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H" q8 R( J/ ?) j5 x) f“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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3 \/ ^1 e! ~1 t3 sLife. 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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5 Q4 |6 a. i1 ~$ Z4 E+ q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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