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! ?7 n: c1 n9 N7 w: B3 H! iOne 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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1 G2 h% e5 [* t7 z( k3 J6 ~& \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”。* t5 q1 Z# V- p
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing., |! X/ T; ^3 V
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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。6 h4 b9 D7 R# T# J5 l. Q7 R' I
7 Y5 y8 f. T& Q) xSome 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, v* a# L. }, Z; s- Z
1 w! Z; ?# `' v3 k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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! M" X5 V) @' k1 BA 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.
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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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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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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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7 }/ A. m% m' l# |5 M8 w$ W6 X4 VBut 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. v2 j/ f% f `
. I' ^* n- u6 V" r$ |& J* 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。4 \0 G) Z- F! D
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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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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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9 n, |$ o# U2 @: [' XYou 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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# L' e2 c1 n% v1 a. N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.# f W2 b+ e5 c# Z& u$ M6 B
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 I* B: s& \2 f8 R+ L+ a2 Y
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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+ N! Q# v" a0 U! m/ n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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. T1 H$ |/ D7 N3 _: V% BFor 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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2 D- F% ^2 S, g0 _7 v. Z- {Two 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。8 Q/ D' N* ~- C n7 r4 n
& `7 `" \. F/ V7 X! 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.": l' T9 J) o) {9 u
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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”。5 t# Q8 x2 K* ?' `6 j5 T) [
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