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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.
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+ h/ i7 r, o+ l: e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.* S5 G5 `/ q$ ? K% A7 d
1 R2 ]0 M7 B6 s3 D: 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。$ g! D3 v' L! c! @9 ?
9 q7 a6 i1 t0 p* f5 ~- _/ o _* zSome 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." E+ d" R/ F* z0 c) n
; ~0 b; A( @9 \% r5 _- Z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.
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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。& R! z) W, b. s+ u7 y
, ?* L( ~0 x+ o' L5 V4 gWhen 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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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.4 _' a4 g r6 r% @
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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.. m+ F6 p2 B! K7 ]; d% K* ]
9 \. A* j. T4 }6 S& \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。4 @; Z1 I8 X K# T j- w- H0 v
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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. * V" L9 B0 y7 t# w, m
4 P* F0 @; I$ a5 y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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6 m+ c" m' o7 R* I. U) l; |& x: n, UYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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# }1 O4 y# r1 d5 _) n* p你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。5 X3 S/ q) N. d/ s: z$ S8 o+ D
* y4 s2 _ c1 J2 m' XHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. s/ i" Q( `( p4 b$ S1 l
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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。
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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. "$ d9 t5 M6 M7 T8 n, h/ w, o+ e
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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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8 Q5 L9 [$ D, w. cTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.- u; v; p# G2 f
0 U8 G1 n- k1 b, `9 X2 U“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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Life. 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."6 v- Y5 X% p R
3 j! U9 g+ `6 d# l* W& ~3 P' t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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