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2 ?' Q, K! k% k' jOne 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.1 P* Q% r5 R# t, u) @# y2 i
4 }9 [3 i! C9 M7 z6 |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.
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+ J$ t5 M+ q- M0 a" a# w' P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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! ^7 c0 H8 D3 t2 u. RSome 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.; v3 d E& g W' j" w9 g3 w
6 @2 D# g/ }! @ r& c2 |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。, W$ B2 {' B; _& P& n% Z' N" {
. H0 G7 z+ M) J, qA 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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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./ ]; h* O6 S _+ m" p9 b' H% D
( K9 {; ^: l2 n, y4 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。
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; }6 z7 j3 c/ P( G# ~$ cBut 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.5 |0 K$ N9 J& }/ @1 M9 S. ^% i
9 [8 h6 O8 g- g) H% I/ d& t3 k1 p- u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。; l2 K9 E( T% U/ T M- {
* Z& x) x0 o8 z' 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.
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9 d& ~1 @7 y6 E( O& F9 n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。1 }' v' ~+ I- Z- ]. E9 @" k
. E s" R$ M6 V0 \. N! PYou 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. 3 E, k' x" T3 l2 F$ d4 C$ A6 y
3 \: Y1 `- |( u: w- X! j6 `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。! C# p% r; s: |( l$ t2 k
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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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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。* T) o% c, `# m% C
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.7 U+ L% ?! O8 O5 j" a% g
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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。6 V1 n& O3 n# h& ]7 f% p
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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. "& N9 e; Q/ c7 u6 b
6 ~. Z6 q& \/ d$ o9 `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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“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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) c* e0 V% K/ k% }$ K4 Z* [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."6 w7 ]+ M. Q e* N; N
. p3 |1 K1 W4 ~7 A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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