生命就是小甜品

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生命就是小甜饼：
8 i" z6 N, }4 j7 o% {% h# LOne 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.

5 ]3 W' m0 W6 D# V# T4 f' C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”。
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. n" X3 O1 d2 Q. j8 e2 i5 l, |If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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) F5 `( H3 w1 l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。

2 N& H7 s, ]0 ?7 XSome 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.

" X7 q5 O. a! q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。

# Z' _/ C' g: \1 N) NA 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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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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6 V. [- w3 |  A* k, L- s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。

# K8 j& t$ T5 ~  a8 X8 WBut 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 O% h( S" d; \+ J4 S* v" P6 L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。

) t8 Y# C% @, ^( M( W1 GThe 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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- U# C  P3 n2 y2 @" W5 B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。

7 l& o6 x: O# x$ w$ mYou 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。

: j' g. V% o/ E7 m" LYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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4 b2 ~: q: d, R: o9 J3 KHaving 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。

# @+ z6 [2 Y% }# j6 Z- U5 B+ BFor 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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, Z$ B$ ?9 d" a8 i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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* O- Z. s! |, b$ F' PTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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6 `' F6 a3 h6 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。

+ j, |3 I+ x8 d7 Y9 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."

6 T2 D+ b: E# Y1 K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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