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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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) h* ]5 |0 y' v4 kIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.6 a; R0 `" I, E+ [ j' }
2 o2 I# j0 t) H* P1 J3 D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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% q9 ~- E9 Y u! G4 X3 r7 YSome 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 k ]9 |/ g9 f- c, v# i# f( D
% M0 J Y4 b9 d: v4 i/ y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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1 T! i2 R& }$ m$ ZA 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.: K- F- w$ W) Y- F
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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。4 b" r( q0 b. S& m# w0 n
3 q% R4 ]9 K+ P+ ] yWhen 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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5 {* C# c# Y; `7 d( tBut 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./ W- P" _4 L( F8 z# _1 I% v
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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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3 z6 Y+ F2 B. |9 VThe 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.: u3 u& a8 }" B1 t, f, @
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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。& x( u1 X+ @5 ?1 Y
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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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: F$ E8 B" r0 ^5 w- D9 e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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4 `& C7 ]6 b& o% X' v/ O/ J6 w1 Q你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。+ X: f' m: }3 T R! ]8 j0 H3 b
' u9 r, K2 F. W1 J) D8 w) _" w4 yHaving 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 n) h7 U. B& L$ m) T! I( e
6 e6 ]* |& Y, n3 }1 N6 v/ c& m0 @$ Z# D2 |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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7 c. ]4 s" G7 G0 i- ~* z c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。4 v- O0 ]: h, _
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.) d9 D- A9 s# O( E
2 t9 b! ?& ?) P( x“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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6 O9 E8 s5 g5 m& K% m/ O mLife. 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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" T& I0 v0 f* W- g9 ]0 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”。; m+ W0 O C2 F
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