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大学英语美文摘录：
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生命就是小甜饼：
: A: h* Y8 r5 [. ]8 R% `8 _ H: lOne 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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9 U g+ i3 p! a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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' o1 r: G. k( E. H6 Q3 ?' H4 a/ `If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.7 D# b8 o+ T& |5 L8 A$ ]
, [1 v9 l8 M$ A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。: B: W. z( l0 a& C4 m @$ h, Q
; G& M+ [1 A" o8 k& bSome 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.! i' N0 t6 y$ S7 \7 ~8 [1 J0 H
# L1 Z# F# H. E' ]3 e$ Z0 |& S% V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。5 T+ X- }' J' z* f; P
6 L/ ~9 E; ?1 K0 o$ HA 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.: P3 Y4 U* T _1 }% w& m% l
' ]& P0 {# _& I9 Z8 b5 G* y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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# s- \: a& `4 uWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.8 h* g! M) r" t* @: H& I
; O$ }; a8 o# ?# T! h; k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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* d; F0 e) d# \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。8 Q, |7 i/ \6 p: p1 l$ o
0 X8 k/ u/ l/ ^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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8 O& c! @3 F5 u" J1 f% S9 `0 }) `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。' v7 x/ j& ~8 ?' C" G7 a
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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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# @3 K5 f) T O& Z4 M9 g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。$ U) K. i- h4 S, q; \
# c" O9 T) m, R7 t4 B5 dYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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~# Z! \$ i3 b$ F3 e2 L* A+ D" EHaving 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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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. ": f" e* N6 G' U" ^, l" m4 A
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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。$ y; U0 Z9 y- K( E$ N) K
" O+ N' `8 }. a8 R BTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important." V/ ]. D: ~, Z- y
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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。! S# [1 K. z, E4 t( h
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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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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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