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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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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.2 \# O; O3 s: J u9 G
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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。( ^9 n7 P7 }& f0 S% q
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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.% P* e, l" s2 v4 t3 s
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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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/ t! T; D* N" FA 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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( u" o6 H: O! e: v. j8 L6 k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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# b2 C+ _) v( pWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.# h* x! w1 E! l; N7 h+ y! i
: F2 O) f$ I7 g# h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。8 k( i7 [5 H+ G# c0 t9 K
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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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* b# d% r# v, V5 l+ V0 |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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k$ A1 K: y: D# x, T2 y0 |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.0 o/ Q, i4 U I1 u7 V2 I! {4 h
+ G- k5 W- Z2 J- V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。
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7 V' u$ N0 l, I& HYou 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. " |4 ]: T4 d: Z, W* p- 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。" N7 a0 @( B1 i/ @ O: u5 j" A
3 Y4 j; `, ~' p2 S' v n0 i' bYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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: t6 H" N2 p9 |你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。0 p) c$ m' ?2 e) S8 z
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Having 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。7 z( {9 |- e9 {$ j% r
5 b: K Z$ z' X) k9 Z2 N5 F0 HFor 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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1 n k9 H4 F1 Z4 x# I% e, d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。$ l* m) a! o6 I1 e; Q
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.1 v- n- ]0 c$ J( U
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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。" W+ [; f! P7 K) G' j9 Z/ @
( T$ N. f7 g6 l! CLife. 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."0 u F; _) ~) ~7 e+ Z4 ?
' P$ v- Z0 W7 Z* K0 k5 N: m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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