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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.8 Z5 ]4 F% z$ M' o0 B; i
6 a; Q$ A* Z! Y; d' i" o0 V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”。2 ~9 ]: {2 e3 u% z
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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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。
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% l* u1 _" P1 n+ N) h1 a( ^7 _, TSome 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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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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f# Z k& i& J: d- vA 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.+ X; i% P {+ h i- E
* G' Y" D' g$ R/ r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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! A! L, `, v# C VWhen 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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* J. {3 R! f" Y7 {' _+ g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。4 T4 h `$ ?; {
8 w% c- Q; U% Y" @+ `7 g$ ABut 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., p6 G) }0 W( S" {+ I 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 }2 I3 Z5 ^ z, |/ p! N# w
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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。. |( |# N. q; g- F
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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. 1 H- _0 z) Z, m6 f
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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。
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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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7 t% A3 Y* t+ H9 } p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.: _( X, f$ O, n3 g, m8 H; e) z/ [
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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 U1 U, W6 y& m3 V' {7 b3 d3 i) \
5 h/ B6 N* s) {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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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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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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. K9 ~/ p& K, j7 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。
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* k, _0 T" f0 s* z. K" E" a# r$ aLife. 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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3 E$ R5 @7 ~& y* K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”。% |$ b& I. H6 G7 q+ L
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