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6 H% n0 P9 f \/ ^0 f# zOne 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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( D5 l" a: u Z: |- Y QIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.0 N* o# W/ D3 I. ]( Y6 N4 j
+ B0 ?. F8 u0 c' O. T& H! y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。 I3 Z7 s' j- c' G# G
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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.
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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。3 s9 m# \1 |+ b1 x0 F* O5 d3 _. p
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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。- y/ a/ t+ }1 I2 q! D
. M+ n' w! m4 ]% t- s4 \, PWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.3 G& d: O* O6 o/ `- ~( _) d/ [
8 L+ P f, F: k3 C$ }0 W# h6 B/ b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。
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% x& T" T$ s7 E4 W& k, f' p6 e. 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.
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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。/ M4 x5 S& p% c! |. @( B' A n
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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。; J/ {. c6 l1 c- N# U4 B* G& ?2 e
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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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+ Y7 b' z8 g6 o+ e; I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.
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2 J( z* y- j( B$ G4 s% r" j你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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& B u. j7 x( e! P1 q+ aHaving 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。' Q4 l/ ^! d; ^' R- `
! a/ c6 f! g0 I( |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. "
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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。, j0 j* K4 g0 \. k8 Z# a
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.' Q& I3 ]( o9 i0 i( @+ O
, v$ Z& @* I# Y5 O0 E# H1 m, S“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."( b$ z4 p& J! t7 m
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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”。* M G9 B' q4 g; }% S( j+ S
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