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大学英语美文摘录：
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生命就是小甜饼：8 \0 X) C$ L5 h" o6 @; q1 _0 L
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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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”。8 s% Z- c( C. |; L2 B
: a# i; ~7 `/ Q- q: E% }8 wIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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* Q* h7 |8 A) D N; ^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。5 ?' ]0 q; Z, o1 N
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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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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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4 \; |/ w" E/ M: z5 SA 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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- F0 }( x0 {: B M, ` t- m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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; V/ {4 ]; ~* v2 A9 |When 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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2 t7 }! X8 y" [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。' o& n3 u6 U+ I8 Y; z" w. |0 i
$ Q7 `8 }6 k3 ]4 o; Z# PBut 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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' [. X2 M7 B# a* W, A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。1 P& |" ]1 i# o6 d) X
% }$ P, E: W% o5 ?1 O0 |) K$ NThe 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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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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- h* O' `6 G0 s/ C: \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 O! `# d7 z" M1 S+ ^; i: v3 _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。4 _( J. K* Z' u6 A
: T1 z2 ~. n8 J' lYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.( }! ^$ D/ b& s% V8 l) c' c
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。$ u( A( m4 _( e) A: z: N
" _4 n7 [7 a. K- x9 d" h# A+ H. 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。. H3 D3 g3 Y$ c
: U# w: k: |/ }) C. bFor 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。8 n5 l! p$ N6 W8 y) F" g
( c( G5 N7 t* |9 q/ _/ x1 KTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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8 A% P S& D5 {7 k3 a% Z& \5 O“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。6 {9 e- a/ }( Q* T) Z4 V
6 F2 s% T6 T: x+ K/ ~+ JLife. 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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& j5 m" D! G- O" q% t& S ]' @/ X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”。1 ^& r# Z: z: F" z7 V* S; |
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