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大学英语美文摘录：5 s, X0 ~- @3 ]* y0 s
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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.) Q# Y1 G( \$ _& G x$ M6 t
5 W. b0 o4 p4 k3 \6 T# v- w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”。: [2 H0 ]. Y/ U$ ?
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.) }6 m$ S! [7 C' {! E6 L
3 i8 P6 e! E% N4 c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。9 A1 k9 S) M; e4 x# T' c% ^
4 o/ W* M/ h% aSome 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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- n! h4 ]; Z* v; d4 Z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。" R# C+ f: A* }$ g, c7 p! m
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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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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。0 T' g9 v$ k2 |
2 F$ U2 Z& g6 H% r$ V0 \: I' CWhen 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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' Y5 E4 _. S; b/ 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。
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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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' d% e" e# T: T: h/ X& {6 m3 PThe 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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C- o0 u: j. l& E2 D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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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. - H: B+ n2 ^2 F; V C
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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。5 m+ b5 O% u$ c# ]5 V2 ~
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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。
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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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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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5 d2 F/ A- Q1 vFor 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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6 w0 p: h9 ^. S L/ N* r$ a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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# _; x5 h/ Q: g" Y! q“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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/ z# e, V7 c4 o; i) i3 d [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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