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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.2 M1 x8 k/ \+ _% @# s
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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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4 @3 B6 e( r4 U" a& UIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.: t6 l. }, ?$ E
7 z0 p6 W" W8 G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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M( I7 c9 E( R/ H! R& T! }, bSome 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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5 N/ I y G" B( b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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, I/ I" x. x( L* U( RA 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.7 b7 E3 B; x6 J3 l' V
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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。+ }, \9 G- @( ?
1 t- ?) C3 C% C6 m3 n+ ~# ^, c# ^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。7 p! J6 G! N' x) p
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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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9 C8 i; [8 b7 n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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4 D" J5 X, L& HThe 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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4 q, u, q) c8 q# pYou 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. 6 @- `9 W' }: p: g( _
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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。$ _- n% d. i5 F T+ s3 P0 W* Q
5 x" L* Z1 p2 Y; EYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.4 _9 B R( K; }5 k
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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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- e$ ~6 a: Z* f* S: LHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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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。2 z- i9 h$ Y& Z; H# ?8 R
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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. "4 [# T, I3 d% N6 v' a8 s) N q; T
$ A4 {" s+ K4 N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。5 ]' m- i+ h; `4 R6 B1 T0 t: O
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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' q0 a# u! U3 K1 `& a7 E; I“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。, W. X8 q9 U i+ h+ C
# N. t+ G/ K* M; ]9 c8 f; R4 I6 fLife. 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."0 a. e/ c8 J% D P% j
. g1 k8 W$ \& k% i! w. p6 u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”。1 t/ [4 D. w! |0 m6 Y
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