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大学英语美文摘录：% Z5 N$ K: {# I Y1 p! @+ q. F
* x; _! U5 t5 Q% A: @生命就是小甜饼：) v- o0 L" c7 k6 C! M% _1 o
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.* G0 Q. [2 f" m, B4 z8 m( o
! W1 L# g: q4 |: i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”。7 `" h+ ^: Q3 a. G: Z/ A
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. a' I2 h! Q4 y
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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。' G1 ^% ?4 \, M+ |
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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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4 i: |+ `6 e1 x. C2 |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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6 n4 {5 b0 }* d0 n# e4 j, |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.3 Q8 r; p8 ~4 D: g1 l! }
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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。' b% K, C0 o5 f+ t# g( r
- X H: [5 P/ |9 Z& R2 p4 z0 AWhen 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。9 C1 T! A- |3 ^
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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./ J1 \6 q6 I5 f2 j
) c9 y2 ?2 {2 p% Z" x9 s! g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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$ n, X' a# j& D! U# wThe 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., [! v/ O, }, f& ?% T3 _) q
. ]" ~. M! S% l8 s/ K/ f/ |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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' O! ~ F- Z: c9 p7 I9 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. 7 x/ j! B6 A4 C0 A" t$ g
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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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1 P/ S, Q( {. l0 ?" d/ ?) [You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.* x& p5 [. q' n
) r8 z' T& z4 R9 V7 H你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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3 z2 l6 n5 }/ v; mHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.( j8 f) \" N! m1 S7 z( U6 [
+ q$ U/ x' s2 R2 Y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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/ A* T( X. a( v: a1 T: @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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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important./ M: ~, v2 U+ _
1 E2 } m3 V2 E; q$ ~" W1 S“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。- @, m5 c3 \/ l& {6 U8 c# }
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Life. 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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5 s- t# }' D _, m3 J x9 { L/ c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”。; n$ @8 |3 `8 A4 A+ A/ a1 f
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