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大学英语美文摘录：
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) L- W$ p. y$ 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.7 X* i" G( F: l; M! k
( w6 |! A, L, q" L( C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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( K$ g) E4 B$ C. e, jIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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. F, c8 Y8 [6 K2 M& a5 e. ^% G6 b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。- H: p3 \+ ~7 E7 o! z- M, p2 S
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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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' B( F+ n5 ?% ~; O% }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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( t- }8 y* g2 ^1 ? [: X5 E. RA 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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& m' X. `* R; j2 n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。- j0 g3 |) n4 @! ~
D& B( D/ r+ L- dWhen 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。! X- z7 g' B6 B# z- r6 |1 m
' I7 ], }0 H2 o0 L! qBut 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.. G+ ^2 \+ E7 \' t! a4 Q
# s8 T- ^/ a% |! I9 N9 ^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.' ^; S, l# [+ [; {5 F7 ~
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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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, N! p( v. o) y# w9 GYou 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. X [" N5 S/ b+ S. ]
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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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2 P) K' J- Q0 V: R* pYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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) z& r: l @0 J' q. Y D你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。: d- Y4 X4 t# V0 t. t7 M5 U
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.- f. I# V1 r- Q% |, q: V
: Z, s5 I* ~6 j7 A) O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. "# r( Z+ h* ~2 V: h2 i# T6 p
% a2 }5 P4 w$ @9 ~1 ]3 U1 \. c& ?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.
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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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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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3 E! j; Q6 c w& i4 f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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