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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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8 B7 n* u0 O4 L# @If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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* ]. K/ C$ [1 _0 P4 g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。8 z$ F" {4 a- m+ T4 o9 K% _# P
0 C6 N( a7 [; L6 r% E: Q/ l% ^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.+ A; `. c1 {, I* s: H( a- g/ {
: _* A0 `1 T! j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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6 n8 t$ M% `! \/ }3 ]% pA 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., w5 y6 z! X. _( E5 |
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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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, `- ~4 t7 E' j+ A9 C: V3 R+ J' sWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.4 n4 B0 V8 G- y4 F; ^ p
; S7 q, j/ ?% a1 T3 s( o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。7 _9 p* u% R' ~, ?6 n
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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.5 q1 Y0 s% s: y8 r; n. F% P
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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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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.1 O( {1 A' _# d5 ? r
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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。) O" O+ _5 G1 ~! |1 R3 e' o
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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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: _" I5 \" J' f ~1 S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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# c4 s7 `, F/ R4 P; K. |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。
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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。" t( ~! |. a5 z/ y# M- ], ^4 A
^; U; U" R) b, ]; l1 F7 D9 kFor 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. "' a6 O& I4 E3 b- w" I
9 Y7 U8 h9 X0 Q: G) S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。' Z' d) E. k% @/ e
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.* l/ y- ?% q9 i( f1 R, E
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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。7 X. x, k. w$ [! S& h3 z( z7 W8 T! V* `
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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."
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- A% t6 L. j# }* J" d# K; w% {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”。+ u1 I0 @- H/ M2 S" e
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