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大学英语美文摘录：" H7 I9 K6 @# ~- B0 U% }5 B
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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”。* w/ z7 x3 n" |* {# M B, [
$ x5 B" G. o2 f& p* tIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing./ e/ O3 X( m- i# S+ ^
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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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) n( e8 ?2 ~# fSome 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.' E6 h) m# m7 c& k3 R7 T" g9 n6 U
6 i4 ]! p' R1 i+ 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。
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p# {6 f8 X, N- j0 ]: PA 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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0 R' Z* E( s, P; H; V$ Y# e) j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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x$ @ S$ s* l' C" _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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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。
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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.% }1 y: H$ |' O7 g* h$ v+ k. i: J$ f
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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。6 z3 D& ~% V* t0 H. [
' L0 K* A( [1 ~! v8 \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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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。/ x! B8 M& ^' F3 s- D" r9 W& ^
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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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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。+ z6 A9 u5 j) [/ X
3 ]( e# @' b0 k/ E0 oHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.# C4 q; ^$ a7 j
7 i! z# ?) f8 j( W* _; k' v: ~. I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。3 q6 P! J7 s: y* J
$ L% C8 a6 q/ B9 e% g7 V# y. \* YFor 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. "5 z% W3 L# X0 \" @, W ]$ y8 i
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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。
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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."5 Z3 i1 K/ [1 e/ S# |4 w Z
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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”。0 T9 f( I+ a; n m. z* U
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