生命就是小甜品

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生命就是小甜饼：
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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7 T; ^5 R" }, a7 O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( c) ~3 f% {0 Q( DIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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7 b! n0 B" W7 R0 Z4 \/ 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。

! m! d! G9 q+ `9 F0 H5 @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.

7 p3 y* r9 d5 v1 @7 J9 X9 r5 p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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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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: v: m$ \1 q8 }3 j3 y' O% UWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.

9 \, B. e( l, ~1 p" ~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 ~5 P' P& A  v4 KBut 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.

3 k2 L6 t. R: `/ j  H- K4 V5 c6 ^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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: X- g3 t9 k9 p0 E7 ?2 c" }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.

1 h8 b. {# u  `8 u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.

' R# w! \% H8 g3 d$ U) t7 G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.

  k0 b0 _% s. ~( W& a你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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' S; h- g  s; _$ qHaving 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。

' W  ?  Q- T0 u+ q% j" TFor 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. "

% l: i' @+ \; r" }, l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。

( V. t+ S; S7 r+ U# S- D; CTwo 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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. R, [2 x& O( `0 ]4 `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."

, x" e9 p3 }' s/ c0 F0 B+ ]/ g" o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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