生命就是小甜品

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生命就是小甜饼：
% d/ g3 n  O/ n! y8 m! f( y! K& J' ]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.

0 P8 b3 G7 n' w, f1 B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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! Z+ }7 |/ }' B9 a7 f$ J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。

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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( D2 @% {. D; F% ]) L3 |2 |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。

5 q) [% w  K$ u! p) N4 DA 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.

8 y% i5 P- l1 O7 X% ?9 T+ `. k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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" ~% R# a7 t9 O- }When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.

3 E, ~  V) G: f% u% n: z( w7 b2 ^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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But 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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2 X6 o- E) K( N: L% A5 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.

. p: ]; ?, D* [8 u) i4 j# @" y$ C/ G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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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。

0 v2 j/ t6 k1 }' W2 ]1 aYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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* {! a6 e% z& B. v* O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.

6 `% U& g& }# x6 o( B2 p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。

/ R& U' ^! ?8 gFor 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. "

4 j3 r# u2 x: z! j  `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。

, w/ c  ^! e' Q+ K$ _( T0 ^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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+ J9 Y4 W2 r: C" v* zLife. 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."

  L; s2 [* R9 Z: ]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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