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. A/ T- k, n7 ` z: o8 {4 G9 DOne 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”。; Q/ @$ H/ r4 s3 b9 Q5 \
& R* T% W3 m' m4 x% D6 ?If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.( ]0 c. i, ~' X* d. T1 F
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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。& N9 R/ @* s% k! d) H
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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.: g( \/ }' J+ _* _5 I
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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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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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% s9 H; c# w' p- T: o4 I! H: B% u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.
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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。4 j8 B0 z% O1 m9 S. Z9 `
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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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& x: ?8 N7 K" W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。" l- t2 _6 u+ K v# f) R7 B8 r
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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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+ E+ r6 `& s3 R e6 {# T4 R4 m/ W& s9 {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。$ u* C) D9 P" M5 L0 w9 ?* u# S
9 Z; l8 D- U+ N2 J) tYou 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. , t0 b7 {3 c, B) O) T5 E% P
$ r% \& s0 \; \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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1 B! _. E- h9 ]& KYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.! p1 }: n! A3 P4 O
6 B" |! x/ d8 x& @, K1 o你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。4 a/ z6 @% |( V% ?( Z& s, ]
9 w" o3 F& F6 ]9 C; ~7 C( B* t8 v0 _Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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Q9 D1 A4 Y' j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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% h9 o4 L$ F/ j0 ?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。& q# F4 l% u# Y; `8 K
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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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“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."* }9 O; ^/ Z6 ]& Y* p
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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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