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c+ R1 z, F5 W" ^' o; _: v2 Z4 @* uOne 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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4 U& Q4 [. a, O$ [ d. @0 G: ~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.
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( Z# Y7 H6 F8 W$ R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。4 m$ X. h3 { D! z: J
- E5 [. A4 {" \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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/ g( [( X0 z7 j C' s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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; ]: d, z, m+ s1 s5 I! w) AA 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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1 j) v0 [/ x! ^7 x. T- y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。& p" s6 f; O7 d. B0 T% y# ~
# {: [) j' f) RWhen 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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, P* u# W5 x8 `6 C# U7 l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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3 O1 ?7 C3 T2 T" N) @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.. ~6 V/ W: O5 z% B, k R% y
7 F* Z# L1 K( c# W, F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。% m( s* m7 U$ v& a# f
; c% T3 C& L# ?0 o' Y. z! n! v' |! vThe 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。7 n+ t2 O5 e( d* @% {( I1 |% 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. + c/ S) E8 V& |2 T, R3 m! S
' K4 t9 |: }% e$ z" k/ D0 F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。% ]9 z" \1 E2 o0 l* f+ }. T
/ G6 P; N. L1 Z1 v0 D. m8 j. IYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。- O3 p0 G' z5 T" Z# k
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.$ n1 I _( R9 E! J+ E
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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。) t" l7 A8 M5 {$ z, t0 i- ~' t
+ s& k8 _% b2 `7 qFor 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. "1 k0 j4 e* v2 O8 w# |) N
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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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+ _4 q. ]5 o1 J- L% X; ITwo 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。
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7 `& c- [2 E2 c( \' L7 ZLife. 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”。; u" {3 f( |" b" `( S" M
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