生命就是小甜品

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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.
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. Y, C3 N* s+ \, T; q' 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”。

7 m) V$ l0 v. K7 F) J; @If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.

+ J' z) h4 p/ c! E" [+ H+ y0 w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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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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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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( x6 P# j. _6 I# r, kA 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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' d, ]* z: L5 H8 \When 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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, h0 t! y  w$ _* m/ d. y8 f$ L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。

0 j9 q8 o' u4 G: 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.

9 J3 S* B6 u- ?3 l- Q. t/ j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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" q$ t2 R" F6 rThe 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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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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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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5 H3 q! R$ ]0 H8 B: P1 f  t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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: f" O" `6 ~9 q6 RYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.

你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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6 z' s2 \+ X5 c) vHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.

4 b, I4 i+ i" p9 L4 a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。

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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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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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.

“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."

8 T- E7 }0 R6 P6 V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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