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* E, {0 J; l% H) q0 y& e) q6 BOne 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., ?: J |8 x7 L0 \9 \
7 S8 M! @ Z2 ]* j8 V2 C+ y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.
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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。
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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., H* p. R1 W+ D4 q; m d; `
4 E! O0 L: e/ N% Z( p9 j: R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。( L( r [8 X! [1 E& ^
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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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When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.# }! n) P& _3 p6 B/ |! Z
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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。( `& ?5 m9 r3 k. T( F) h
: C) S; D, C( o# _8 d9 g+ XBut 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.% J" I; j* v+ r
8 e3 j) s: L+ n- m! 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。1 h/ }7 a M( j k5 o$ m
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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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- B9 x0 D( H' ^ T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。. s& m( ?4 o4 ?4 h1 b9 R
3 x8 t# C4 }+ d+ i/ r* c" hYou 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. ; W. I% ?9 z/ u( |/ V# [" G
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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。% l# z5 N* K; R; V; q
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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.
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。/ ?. d3 e8 p& ~* |
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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。
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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. " @" \% E' e# A+ }7 |! c
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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。& D) V9 B+ @9 q2 n+ E: h7 i% I# l* Y
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important./ J% g- q2 V; a, B
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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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- |/ W1 d2 G, s4 o1 ] y- rLife. 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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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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