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.

6 n. p$ Z! f  I0 k# a/ T3 ^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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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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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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! S; k! R  y$ b/ Y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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- W. E" V2 V3 w+ N5 m6 \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.

5 M6 O  ]* _- l: e4 y' r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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: ~  }, z9 e8 ?! o/ x  NWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.

' p) J4 r# m; |8 m$ U9 U4 n2 P0 w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。

& A" i/ ~2 `  d3 O% k0 G: ]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.

) f: p) L) O0 J/ d/ Q( I$ U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。

, c" v- |4 Y1 L' BThe 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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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。

" g# s9 w( \1 ?4 z0 hYou 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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You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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$ I' p+ ~+ A0 \, H你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。

/ A: Y2 K% K1 ~Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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) J! A3 C' O! T7 q; w4 i: l/ r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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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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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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9 F/ n4 v4 [4 z9 xTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.

& H" V3 ?2 `; z, n& X. L: y“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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8 M4 s8 w7 r9 G0 E: }. QLife. 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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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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