生命就是小甜品

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. o3 [" P* k; {# C7 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.

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”。

If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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" _0 e5 W( d$ g! x+ a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。

* x3 D% g3 [1 e! _# D% g* 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.

  u/ ]/ C7 \" G  w1 t' |5 i6 k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。

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.

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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+ o2 O* v* L) Z9 G/ u& rWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.

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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: ^6 B5 r& l* v8 J) t1 NBut 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.

$ P" z1 Q/ [' X) N" [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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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.

4 _5 F) T+ q* P5 _- v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。
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; ^  q1 E" }. DYou 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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* x5 |: C4 a& m/ QYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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6 a& x( x; G" d: c0 W你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。

Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.

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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; @9 Z4 `' u0 e! r+ G2 a9 `, @For 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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, X% k' f3 |: C7 o4 j# k7 y; G+ i, Z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。

+ j0 n) T- }4 n* S0 bTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.

: [$ T5 `6 o0 ]: Q“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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& K, q6 \) b* ]' ^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."

) E( H+ L3 Q2 |" V! t( [7 F7 _! z) u$ _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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