生命就是小甜品

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生命就是小甜饼：
* p2 c7 }% r1 K6 H1 L; `1 YOne 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.

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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/ O5 e8 G+ y; z/ @9 w  u1 KIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.

- Q8 g" o6 Y2 k& ?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。

% P" i. s; |8 _3 O; 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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4 U" l1 y2 J- Q$ K" }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。

% W$ H: t/ T6 e: T$ |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.

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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1 w9 J! I0 ?  @6 p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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! z% @0 L* y3 S% m9 {4 N4 `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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! h$ k3 p3 |& L) E0 d2 NThe 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/ G7 l/ b5 |9 J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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8 @+ l/ \. B/ o5 S$ b) qYou 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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9 k& Q9 L8 X, QYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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( n+ l% H# n7 Y8 k% ?$ }: [  Z% ~你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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$ ]% d2 ?7 ^  l# `# V) L: rHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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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。

, U8 t+ b3 N- M. d8 u+ IFor 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。

' L0 a% R$ v  Q! S1 G* KTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.

: A( O. V% B" V- S' }7 Z“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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6 i4 q0 c# {+ j8 A0 cLife. 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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6 J4 ?+ c9 P% @* p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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