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6 b2 r8 o( F' u1 H; JOne 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.1 M2 ?: {9 ]" g E! E6 g
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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”。/ @, H* o- D3 [5 a& T3 G2 ~
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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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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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( I( j6 {. e3 o1 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. d; F+ J/ l* H6 B# C
) d1 H; Z" o' R7 K7 H$ f3 M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。6 i" X7 V! y3 q
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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.1 T- n w- |+ m/ U) J9 z
( p* e0 V4 C% _( e* u1 t0 z2 N8 w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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When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy./ C1 g, y$ k9 i" h, _+ T$ q( B7 F
7 w% h) T$ t0 a( }* 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。& w3 S! v& A; y3 q
) P; M; D' M D2 s+ m+ fBut 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。1 ]0 S1 G E( |5 Z' J% t
; d+ ]( |4 m4 h) W) g4 D. EThe 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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: a. @- Y8 ]% R, [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。 P. u( u# H9 A0 L% \& |
' _7 T0 h. T7 \; {% D C9 lYou 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. ) L% e0 U6 J0 l* Q, O/ c+ v8 z9 b: K
, s, u$ L+ R. f8 I. k/ L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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( U! Y8 ~, u1 L4 G: V, t( u, eYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.: n9 m- e5 K- P4 {- w9 l! P
+ a4 m2 r9 d& D# i. g你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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/ [3 x1 g2 a+ P: c+ I$ M& ~5 yHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.2 a ], p* a. T! `8 ?2 I+ ?
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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。6 m1 }0 A, t. [
# v, B. \5 s6 S) _3 DFor 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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; W5 m4 U7 }1 s d" o% j) }Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.: h: J5 T3 f# h3 \& b5 _
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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。8 i7 j" K' h1 ^( q9 I
9 f9 O' A( L& p; ^& bLife. 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."; {. n& j" b$ t0 Q, X
+ P; ~, N V* m" ^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”。# N! G: |6 f* X6 w) q
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