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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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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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2 ]* x' z! U, \; O# _/ KIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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' p8 C4 S9 C% \- {8 z( A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.: ?9 w1 ^: R' [. f u
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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。! S2 ~4 J. a" M4 c3 S
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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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% M) U. \5 J3 n- e/ F* |, b) s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.# d& [) e8 n `8 X% @. w8 a, q
) i- p/ C( t- _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。, |2 \) A5 ~8 q$ Z* U6 P+ K
; |+ g( n% ^% zBut 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./ Z8 @4 R- [5 p3 U
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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。4 f( F# q5 ^' q4 N# o
, X/ z" M3 i) P2 M" ?! fThe 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.8 i8 _2 Q( l. a# g( P& ~! G M$ ?
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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。) v0 w! O' f. S% R- m6 w; `
Y1 W) |5 P0 h+ x0 G+ X; \2 q8 x' 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. 8 b, ]: Q6 n* b" N4 ?7 v
7 |6 g7 g5 d6 _8 ]9 r# b2 P4 O& _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.
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- B. {) K. _* m1 x7 t) A7 k$ U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.5 L: A+ @0 w! U3 o9 y
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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 v& B. S: |( B
, M& h* p2 s( p* }2 R6 [ tFor 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. "1 i' m2 ?/ t4 [* g- P3 b# O
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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。& X n& N$ _3 M! Q
- y9 e; X7 C2 ]" G% aTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.2 O6 V' b4 W$ H: [5 p; d, m
8 [ I( `6 o* t8 r* ]“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."1 P5 v. Z3 M; z+ x( E8 G
& i6 S) G2 k& V% Y z( ~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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