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大学英语美文摘录： N' j) a2 u2 Y
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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.+ C' |$ w2 Y9 m7 F2 u
7 E7 k( M9 `+ d2 z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”。% `5 F3 s/ o. l* x1 t" n
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.# C% [0 c1 V% ^ H) Y
! X9 w6 c. J- T# L! r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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. Z0 ?8 U2 f8 C0 P; X, I( oSome 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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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。8 `7 u ?8 k) C4 K" y: p) _
% L; c/ J, b2 c2 F* x* }9 TA 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. I0 w: q% p/ F1 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。& g* @; @' M0 {* U( L5 c) X
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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.9 P* k$ E8 L9 p6 V' h& f
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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.
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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。# m( w- M& {$ C6 c& I( ~
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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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# ? D0 N- u: l/ ~1 u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。9 n$ E ]3 A+ ~: W% N
( _& H0 @+ B6 Y% q+ rYou 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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/ L6 U S, o" j9 y9 y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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7 E+ b) i1 u* wYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.& p) W% R' g1 y7 ]7 s
, `% n+ e& v4 I- b你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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& d% x& ], X) z1 B, ~8 p8 n4 x8 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。, @! p( S% K( Q+ C) m
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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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- d4 _/ V" \* j8 YTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.: k9 y$ w5 E1 O# W9 n
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“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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/ m* M# u0 _( KLife. 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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" V, z2 }+ m+ z# j/ D- @) 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”。6 x- b" k) Q: h# i
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