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4 P+ [& q+ h' c* v# u0 Q7 ~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.1 j' J7 F7 d; {
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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。& Z' {* \0 [5 U2 g/ \/ d
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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.( D/ a0 O" y' y6 |7 R8 E# D
! {- q9 f8 B8 {! R8 s' Z/ f* A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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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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' g, l0 t3 ^" t( V6 G3 ~! J4 rWhen 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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$ z1 y* y. w" K! U; S2 {$ c/ |" y2 ^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。9 t U: \2 |& u
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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., P7 e8 y# o" s$ ~" J( [* t4 @$ j) m
6 P5 u( ?, ?8 }) v/ R/ o1 G1 e6 e6 g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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$ F' {3 i8 ]2 D M: i. @ O% U Q) I. XThe 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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/ J, Y6 t9 H. L) n5 P I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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0 U- l: g0 @2 X4 _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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3 C1 d4 z% N' {$ c$ b5 l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。8 b+ X6 M4 M8 L( w
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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.- @/ N7 h# w4 J' p
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。) j/ C& o( F' n; ?7 e
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.# H' S4 {4 f; Q0 a' o1 P# W& L
8 i+ ^7 ^) d9 X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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" }9 B* ~0 c' c: r9 h1 O- MFor 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. "$ K3 P: o4 V+ B& l
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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。9 `* Q$ }% G, l+ W0 y6 Z& e3 x
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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."! s @3 V4 } e( Q! ]0 H3 W' ?
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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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