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大学英语美文摘录：8 b9 @+ T& ?) }' \8 N8 s
9 `3 c! p0 Y; F; C2 P. p0 ]生命就是小甜饼： @9 y& ~' I0 G( A
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.
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' X4 H" b+ R) i, F% G% l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”。) P0 D& c% {$ ]5 i4 W
( t2 K6 k/ f# a6 Z7 xIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.% r# c9 J8 z3 C* o
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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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8 o( ?* _5 ~$ S. F- h( n% g+ k3 o) SSome 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.- P9 P# q3 V. v* }8 ~3 S
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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。( m( H8 U0 y& V0 S
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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.
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( e/ o6 T" |8 [4 U2 L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。; s0 U0 U+ z* t4 B1 ?
, I$ Q& ~3 a# 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。
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4 u) B+ u. ]5 y6 O7 ~) KBut 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.2 T4 v/ K$ t x! U
0 }, R# J3 a9 g4 W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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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.6 Z- _* r* [3 D3 L* C
3 V9 d* q3 M, S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. ( C9 Q3 E2 B/ r. ^5 u! T
: H Q" k' W7 q* |1 D3 D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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* g* _, `- W; G* p5 s* g你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.- |! m: c( N* B" s% ]
, Y& p7 x8 x( h+ G& D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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7 E/ i- Q6 P9 n1 b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。( p7 B" ]# b. ?, N1 ?5 n2 f9 _" Y
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.# C- n; P9 H F8 _0 [5 y/ ~+ h. ]/ ~
) Z' Y/ N* J- {& J# F& T" n“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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2 m) s. O R+ lLife. 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”。& b9 E5 z3 {- Q. G* q; D6 _' K
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