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8 |; F# ~9 n. z! O$ U9 c* [1 vOne 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.8 A* ]6 z5 o6 r7 b2 M" Z7 M
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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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% w9 y4 c% g! A {If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.+ @. ~7 A* O3 v" V; a+ v
. V, |5 e+ b+ E5 _! t* {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。/ p' B+ V+ p2 g$ g
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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.
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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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. [* R9 \, g: j9 |+ TA 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.6 X. m# Y! j2 B( G) O* ~
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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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3 R3 p y8 Y8 T5 t; g7 J9 RWhen 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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! F" v, B6 {9 d# l2 H) z4 B) w& f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。9 Y5 C1 X6 k! i0 R
( Z4 ]3 G1 Q) E" s. D0 c* v+ S, ?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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7 L# P) r/ } F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。* C2 Y0 O! {7 Z0 s- E
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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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' m% w0 A, N" g( W" }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' c2 j: ~8 i
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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.7 y( s; p, J8 u" d
% ^- B% N* [/ ^" _4 t5 n# d" j4 @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.' {* e8 J( ?* z8 F
$ W& _5 D+ Q3 T; i M5 g6 m: U; U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。7 u1 S# B O( V" X8 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. "
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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。6 V+ A6 G' l; S% y/ C
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.: T+ w. c- T$ m$ U
6 d; e; i: Z9 }2 L3 y* B; t“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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$ [, r7 p' O: S$ l9 h+ lLife. 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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t3 l- p0 t5 ]6 L; {% 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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