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7 T, O7 Y3 J6 @. m6 JOne 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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* | [. ` O9 fIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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& \$ T7 R! r# l5 P. {7 s1 K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。6 q0 h# T5 M6 W9 \! m
( ]2 K& C4 I& P0 e2 a; O# 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.- M6 u+ j& ~. J, Q; e2 d* g
+ \" \+ c: ~6 X: V/ ^" w' I, y! c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.) n2 p: n$ F- h; A( G% B' c# K
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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。0 X3 D/ d: ^7 L- N( }3 u
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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.
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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。9 g0 T, e" e9 C ^0 T
6 _% I* U& r( v5 @9 FBut 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.4 c$ J# u, i; _& g8 [ B$ x2 W" M" j6 a- [
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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.
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! M$ J1 [) x% E) h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。/ g4 v9 X) Q; h( i- j
5 G9 W( ~% d+ [6 h/ O4 N2 x7 AYou 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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; r, L7 H8 p8 `% c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。3 v2 j5 {' Z# t. u9 i' L( n
a0 H/ |' z1 d" \You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.' f4 ?; m# q w0 y
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。. j1 y: O0 E' E+ j x& @
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.' d7 j* h+ n, g- b5 I& w3 `
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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。9 j- P- M2 A1 B, S' f
, Y0 Z8 P# P3 {: l( F# c. {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. "5 A3 j h) x( Y2 x4 n& y& z& z
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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。) v* x" H: m# |' R: O) `
( [" \' B# r2 n( j& YTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.) ]3 P: x3 @& n" y G
J" A4 l, _$ M" G“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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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”。& k* L( N& U# r7 h$ E
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