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) u9 v4 A/ O% F9 `2 Q4 V* ^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.0 e% D9 b o' R i2 D3 E( P, s# U
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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”。 z! x. P5 \( V5 _
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.4 C& B" b& h$ a# T3 m- @6 Y
4 \5 f' e, c6 w0 B# i- F) l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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5 q3 A. Q$ s; H6 d! lSome 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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q$ s: {- Q# p7 j/ N l& 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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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。" b5 y; b) t6 X3 d/ J3 Z) O* H
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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.! `" ?0 |) o3 r, Y. U" S- S
$ I1 l5 [* X5 ]3 s: d. C( S$ [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。; Q- T% `/ J4 D- L: b q# r5 Z
& [$ Y' t5 o1 _) R; LBut 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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; t% d; N/ v& m0 m; b) ?" sThe 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.; V* S0 x& ~ d. K* R! l
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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 P2 ]7 } e4 @
) R* o+ U+ V* j& sYou 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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( z# J. i8 l) x0 G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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+ ~/ W. k- w) ~6 b; X1 ~$ Z5 iYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it., e' `& k: i* f
1 P2 M L% l- x你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。+ e/ Z, {$ L* a8 w' [
- r+ D* e4 u7 r: J wHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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) }# v) I% r( O! _7 Z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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: C: c& {8 E: U! }1 _4 y- 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. "
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9 I0 d: _+ Q z; ^0 S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。: e& {% o* x; ~2 s
; O: v, u( g/ p! @* N$ STwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.6 e% m. ~$ W, v$ L) T7 P
$ ]; P) j0 O: ^3 z3 D# f4 A“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."' p' H- h$ O& ?& A6 A) A' @
" Q7 x- F0 g: P: x0 [+ T6 |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”。! _7 D4 f! X1 k1 m& M4 A( ^# I
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