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大学英语美文摘录：9 r4 A! h( E" Y: {! D( `
, w" W5 b) c* W: A生命就是小甜饼：& N1 i9 E3 T9 ?
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”。' U: e: f5 H% V& G% y' K/ X
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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0 X1 Z7 G/ m4 Y, N: u4 B: x& g0 F7 p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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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.! z# O4 D6 K: y7 c) J
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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。" p) X! L& I& j% d
1 a, y5 d" U+ a7 f6 G5 [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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7 r- w1 U7 q; H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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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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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。# Z \5 m5 O- r; k) T; N
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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.) z' A' ]. S/ O' v8 H4 Q
6 ~5 m& A/ [) q& j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。' w5 T' s, j* O, P1 q- Q1 o: ]4 c: n
. Z4 I: R* h, `( |' OThe 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.+ q+ }5 C+ i% N. t
" X8 c" L" K# K) i9 D. H. _/ K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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2 x; M8 `- D2 q q* F7 DYou 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. / c$ h y% E/ R+ I
% V7 e3 u {9 R% C8 }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.3 O/ I) ^- B( a: `9 e2 O
3 o- ]( d& X/ g2 i: m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.
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* v8 G% S4 x% ^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。% F; {5 ]+ P! B( h
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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。* ]2 Q& K# C2 |8 j( a( }
& [1 n3 ?$ \6 e( {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。) r5 ]9 N% P& Z. @7 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."5 X+ V" l) v0 O# ]' ~+ ~# v
2 ?0 S- K$ a4 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”。2 f* y0 I4 j/ `, S6 N+ I L+ u6 i6 Z
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