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One 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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/ N( M8 B6 W* ~% G* x+ R. s9 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”。
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* w8 J: M% o# P, ~# F) a2 HIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing." W, S+ @& F; _; x
9 H4 N* ], K2 K e1 u/ N2 a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. f" V3 b6 c3 G$ D w
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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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0 y q2 q1 o$ \& w% ` U4 Z1 E% U- ^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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% T% @5 @! \5 G0 f2 N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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* Y; h: D" i$ |' uWhen 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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3 n9 v! K6 X6 U7 g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。- l+ u( G! z( |7 r2 l+ S3 g
% w9 x8 J. [( S% w+ G+ jBut 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。
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4 Z3 b7 X0 [- ^: w* O8 TThe 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.( x% a) `; ?" _6 v( S) j2 w1 W. T
0 f, D4 W! L4 L M3 K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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You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.4 c- w9 w! W6 \3 d: D, l. K# {. q
7 y4 \3 F* Q: X7 {7 U, @* V你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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# U8 s8 B7 j; YHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him., }; l3 n+ _! D5 G* q* I% ? {
+ P% w* Q% C# ]6 g" y, 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。6 J4 R% F; \% L7 B8 r6 U O
/ F; E' \" s D2 F$ g. IFor 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. "
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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。
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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。& U3 m: q$ o, z; R( ^* q
4 O; L! M" z1 fLife. 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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6 L9 H/ Q$ @( N1 ^% D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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