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# B: {7 M+ F( I( |9 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.+ R6 F; b7 m, m: @
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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”。: I* E* T% [. k, S
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.. M( x( a! _6 t6 d/ Y0 V
' l# G& K# Y; b) 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。. H$ X) `+ i% T% J
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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." X+ K3 h0 U$ k& q, P
9 R. {" @ c4 W0 B) f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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4 G! D& y+ H6 D9 M' T! `) L2 b1 _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。8 r' U2 }- g9 d( p
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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.5 |+ ]6 Y$ j/ ?9 ?" v2 T- n7 z
6 I1 e% d' e, W+ i# N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。% n( R- J+ P+ ~
) B: A6 p# _* X6 {- b$ p$ V: ?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.
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/ K/ q) ?5 \: y/ q5 x& I: U. T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。- T9 y0 g. ?2 j
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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.
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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. 6 v" n. f: ?: S' }/ U: h
7 U0 u, G% c- O) {: e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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You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.. ^2 a0 h1 m4 r9 c# A8 T# @2 H! b
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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.5 T' b- w) `2 Z. z# N
9 d, n+ |$ V( |* Q& n$ p. X1 }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。1 |! B7 z- p9 }: `7 G0 }
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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. ", L* ^( H' l! z0 d# A8 Y9 B. x0 w
- y( e7 G$ ~/ y( }9 _- o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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1 u' |- w5 i+ e1 B | I* J0 ILife. 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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0 W' x" @' ?7 I. W6 O; q9 |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”。0 h# S& q/ e+ }1 {7 ^: ?3 E- d
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