生命就是小甜品

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生命就是小甜饼：
( {, C/ F5 o& S. I5 d) nOne 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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3 c) U$ }0 z0 ]9 b' e9 U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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. i+ ^: s% r& @7 ^: w& ?3 ?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 C$ ~( y; t/ v& `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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! |( w3 K9 B( D- J* D- C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.

! M4 r& Z  _' @3 B: x. B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.

+ k: g" p; D/ l* e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。

3 J4 _: U4 l/ i3 s. ZBut 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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0 V; Q3 f0 B4 hThe 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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1 |' H0 ~% ]7 B* W' K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。

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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4 d( h# ]1 c% v- X1 r7 N9 O: E" x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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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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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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/ _5 T9 @" b8 h7 B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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+ Q1 H; C4 S6 i; g0 c3 d0 XFor 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. "

& E" d0 V6 q7 |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。

& Z& E, t& u1 }! h1 Y0 hTwo 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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- X' ^+ L9 G+ @& J" _9 c! OLife. 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”。
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