生命就是小甜品

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: W8 P" q4 Y$ W7 vOne 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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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.

# K8 I- B/ [; N# ^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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! W6 v% R4 W2 F1 g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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0 s; d2 j+ ]/ LA 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.

3 z! f! y8 k  {' X! @* w3 _8 z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.
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& w7 w: I. Y# c8 {) J* Q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。

5 m8 `& k% p( @4 D1 W. z( F/ 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.

2 o5 W3 E( a1 Y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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6 Y0 D7 a9 R, wThe 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.

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.

8 B3 r: `2 L" V# s1 ?" 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。

% m7 h' a; L* U; B1 q# W# n5 SYou 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。

1 J( ~! s: l' L3 E, K- Q5 S& ZHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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) b  ^4 P* l$ e& g" C) 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。
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6 l, k/ V, P5 i0 v$ \/ \& DFor 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. "

0 y0 H6 h: G! K" b& Y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.

& @5 @+ i7 n9 w7 p9 A: p( ]“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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. }4 ~! S, U7 m7 M  e( xLife. 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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: ~+ o) Z8 }3 X! c  |( f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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