生命就是小甜品

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生命就是小甜饼：
* B! |9 H1 O( I$ `) G6 Q: IOne 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.
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$ q% G" q1 x1 G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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& X. B  Z4 o! X. RSome 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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# U& y$ ^9 ?+ L" f1 T5 T( `' v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.
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# j9 q  E! h( ~. 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。

1 {7 U# z# M9 P8 Z! m5 TWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.

9 n: h. Y3 X- G4 Y3 n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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$ {( f/ H6 J: m+ d7 ~& B, G" g" uBut 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.

) }; w1 ?$ @  d- P" Y) {$ \$ E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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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.

- W. z! @. R8 c5 Q9 i; S- E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.

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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1 q6 _  P3 J; E+ PYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.

$ n, b) L; q0 }4 F1 Z6 m/ j% h你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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& |4 H' F, N4 d; L4 EHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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+ d; V0 L9 f' B! Y$ R( g6 U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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9 \' [% G% W8 p# w4 e+ X' W$ [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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: S. \/ n5 [; h/ _  y. j7 RTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.

8 o  m8 s5 ~7 i“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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, C8 z- ]4 x5 Q* v! V/ r( |% p, K  C/ BLife. 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."

) Q8 d. j9 q5 o" [# p2 ]; r1 O7 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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