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% L, G. {0 x% m: Y4 ROne 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.* g8 d$ Y/ ]8 H7 S# a
4 f7 m4 N4 z9 Q6 n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”。& `$ ^) u6 M2 e/ }% |) j4 x9 s/ {. _
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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。- D% \+ t% a/ o5 T7 W' v% X
( N0 s {0 e, c5 T/ L7 iSome 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.) {: k- O3 E5 w' ^& p
. |, y" [6 ^. I B8 Y, X6 M5 \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。 P0 q1 u& m7 g
( O; J2 @1 j/ ^# o a* kA 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.3 N* G! E+ H. j: ? h$ K" i5 n
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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.
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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。' e0 R% h& z, G& d& Z7 V. q
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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.
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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。! d/ i+ s4 W% E9 C
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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.
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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。
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% r6 O. G* @( n5 r) {2 R) xYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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1 `( c4 K( B. r! R* ^( e8 L你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 r8 R. G5 l3 A8 T
- @. W$ n3 v& BHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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4 g9 ], ^2 D9 B4 U/ h+ n6 g( R2 O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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9 R5 X- b! Z& W5 `0 cFor 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. "4 x. D2 X- b# e1 L0 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。% c1 z2 y/ q. o/ Z2 M [, B
) n" W! w1 J% [! lTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.+ q' O. y& p6 x* S+ D0 V
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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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2 I3 [5 S+ _. N' \7 {5 VLife. 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."8 i0 b. ?( q- D, x
- a: \+ A# q) m" W: c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”。% H" ?9 _/ ~3 k. y
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