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大学英语美文摘录:& \, }% h( n9 [* l/ W9 o; q
- ` [! J. d3 j/ r2 b生命就是小甜饼:2 e0 X! Z4 r7 o0 I2 u; Y
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." }/ S; C e7 K; M/ r
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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”。
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8 |6 B% v8 L* p) f; FIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.' p1 O5 w! n) k" T3 Z& b6 w
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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.% _2 K) I k5 \5 Y7 _
0 I5 s1 a4 m4 y, u- u9 ?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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/ j* t8 Y- Z, V$ IA 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., K% C; B8 u ?) X$ [8 K6 c
4 U9 o" ?3 v# Z8 A) G, f8 {! p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。+ d. U4 P) G' F4 b1 N. r; R0 o2 O
% @# @, L i% _( v; k) P/ q- @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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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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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.5 x1 n# F% Y3 T9 \1 [* P
" W# B' l3 O L3 h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。6 n0 O, e5 H2 @3 b
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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.
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4 |6 i# q0 C( m' p, }6 x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.
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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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2 L( ~+ P# E& P+ Z你忙于不让自己失去它,甚至没有时间享受它。9 v# b. _7 Q2 x
& e8 S Z( d: fHaving 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。
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( b4 ~* D, z5 n& P4 Q5 ^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. "6 g3 O& ^) ]3 B: V# c( h- W/ S7 i; L
# K5 [# L/ r- [; a) e, u% f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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2 v: c- A& Y' [& gTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.. a A1 W7 x& z/ T
- a D7 d: w* }, |6 Z/ v“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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3 j0 w R9 N% }/ wLife. 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."9 T, D: R h3 v* O B; M# u
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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”。; q [8 K! n* Y& l, W
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