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: q2 J: l3 j( AOne 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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) h0 [9 i0 E; r6 f8 j! yIf 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。) q' X$ A9 a+ D) {% ?2 m
, `; |5 F0 Z$ @" x( _5 \% j3 Y& 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.
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/ v2 E) N; P$ G2 i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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; Z$ J5 G9 e" k& R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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) L; e# {. q9 Y0 }; b+ XWhen 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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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.. n2 J! [, `. ?6 J
Z5 D0 }3 W' B# o* B9 N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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: [0 L) o' b$ ~( pThe 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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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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6 Y2 R+ c" y- M: Y0 M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。. }. Y5 E `6 A. _, ~+ B
; }' ~& L& E3 iYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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; U' u' j5 h. mHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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. q9 d% f( g# J! f8 Z; W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。" O1 D+ ]1 G3 t
! d3 x& _# P" A, L- O/ t" b* H0 OFor 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. "5 Z% n! r. j6 f+ t4 ~/ u
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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。- [# L7 g7 o2 m6 u0 X* I
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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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- ]5 P: m; ~0 ?: n“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。3 r9 y" Q% ^, j1 @
8 t- m, H4 K7 _$ P$ P! _" W/ ~: S+ zLife. 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."; @/ H' s# o! U$ L
9 r6 `' O+ \: C5 u" I' ?% u x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”。$ A, x/ u v) `0 @2 T1 [
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