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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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3 {! X3 u# X* {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”。: M* o# b# \- ?* Y) U+ @
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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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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。: Y- e+ A, k% ]2 J4 V- E* v
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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.9 l4 _4 s4 _ n) Q! ^
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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。8 s" e" }# \* a( c6 ]+ }) i
" V$ o1 T: m# C2 G. ?2 `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.0 @2 Z9 S: h9 f) L; p3 }/ C' f
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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。' ]: ?4 \& }1 g
1 G& G0 ?" d9 _( V! hWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.9 k' j8 @7 [' \1 q. j [
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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。
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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.. t# x, _, _/ a }/ M' T
! p: n" v3 b* w- G6 h, k. [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.7 r% {. E- S0 q+ H4 f
" ?9 ]5 O$ Z7 B4 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。
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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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5 A+ ?$ g6 Q& e: S$ G6 O+ |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。# p/ E5 r7 G/ f0 W W9 P
! z5 A7 C8 b) V, G# XYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.8 m& r; s" I+ A: z
/ Q) i0 Z5 P' S5 i' j- O你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。8 M. [% ^3 e0 T- s4 ?
( F( v$ y4 _/ ^. H4 F0 X' [Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him./ o% F0 ?6 U3 A$ Z4 }7 p6 a
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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。" }4 U* T/ J/ H& a4 d1 N% D
: z/ g" t$ d6 m3 ]6 i% EFor 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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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."
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% R& I9 T7 {, ?& ^/ g* F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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