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6 W$ ~' e) L# FOne 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.6 R0 x, m0 }3 b* H m+ Y. V
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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”。; L4 m! k+ R; q, F+ e3 q
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.% y7 P6 Q; F; D3 k3 A
9 t3 D! r& Z3 T: L2 f7 X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。) t. T5 x% E; g. n1 K) k6 l. w
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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.0 y6 Z. f; y5 d. a
; L1 s% J' {' D8 J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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1 L( r8 ^' A" J& D$ d& ~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。
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e1 L6 H( W* tWhen 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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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。9 `" p9 O7 M# M0 w+ u9 P5 F
3 E. P0 g. O$ I# RBut 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./ l$ m% z* U: ~# F1 ~- \
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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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. u6 o( v$ U3 K/ l4 q3 OThe 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.# i1 ?" n# a0 g& N) X o
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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。# O$ C1 M }2 u/ l& m$ n& k
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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。7 G, A1 l% A( V
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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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0 P: q' I- {2 _你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.- P. ^- @- G1 _+ A
/ Q0 u$ v( T) m) c) I# T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。$ e, _( F6 ]& }6 A9 W
; E3 ^8 U% j iFor 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. "' n: ]/ p8 l; Z7 V; 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。' d: _/ ^# H- N1 c& n1 p
- }* g( z+ i4 R3 OTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. T4 D9 H" v! U( A# j8 w) ^
8 D* _2 |3 Q* O0 c: L3 b* c“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。. ]/ a! ^* \2 M3 q
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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 ]1 f6 i( B; U5 e& J' @
( P8 ~# G2 X1 d9 {& q3 @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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