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, R7 q. I2 e) X3 }$ V) ]4 {0 TOne 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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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.5 x( j; g5 f" P/ o$ i
! N& K$ y0 ~' {/ j, i% P/ I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。7 ?8 R1 c3 m1 n3 I
9 @$ Q% ~ c4 g8 G5 pSome 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。
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* |3 J L8 c8 x% @: a/ }5 cA 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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; E+ {$ _: o0 O8 b W& j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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2 M6 i7 D$ U& t% ~' |/ `7 LWhen 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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' o9 F; l& r! V0 Y! i n: Y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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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.' O/ x! w2 E H" Z, u$ W) Q
8 @* O ~, M# V9 k+ T2 L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。% @0 o3 v* I; {, R4 l+ ?0 q/ G
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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.1 {( |- u* N) m- S |& P+ K
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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。. y$ h5 N' A+ h& N7 a
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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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$ b1 b7 m0 H/ F2 fYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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. \, x1 e0 G- x9 [你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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5 d9 M" I6 W6 k. f; J' hHaving 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。+ j( j* R D) @: r
/ X! k& `4 S7 L' WFor 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. "0 P- i) R( F1 n: G& [
2 p. U& W+ K/ v0 e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。* [/ K) t. V% ?& ?$ L# u0 O
L& y0 f5 z; ~8 ^# nTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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1 V4 d6 P% C( A" {8 }( u“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.". ?1 m* O" t( w, ?3 X) x5 @
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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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