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大学英语美文摘录：
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生命就是小甜饼：1 w) [7 T# P0 w5 t
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.8 y4 s$ Y I4 S5 b" ~6 s
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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”。1 h, o( I& R8 @; D5 p! g
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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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9 w/ g8 u a8 F4 [2 U. L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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4 o/ W/ t5 _% w0 N5 D. d. cSome 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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. X( B8 G5 a( f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。8 B& A1 O- G5 i& Y e. H
! V; q# m6 F; L7 j7 n. KA 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.& a/ }2 b2 I' J" j- @3 E1 [0 L
% }8 D5 z$ i" f, f% U5 r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。6 L' z3 E! `# o+ K9 w
0 ^5 S& j+ L* k( Y4 {) u) _: {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。9 @; \. f1 O$ v- c7 j1 l
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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.8 Y4 B' C* N) I- N. q
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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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0 Y+ K v, _! ]5 UThe 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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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. 9 l, k; ^% b7 ]7 `9 j9 m! 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。* K A+ f2 f5 I8 ]+ J2 |2 F. }% C
) l7 e. ?2 X. W5 q jYou 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.2 q3 @, [6 O) o+ Y# @& e( [- \: k
2 q: I7 m+ C# ]2 E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. "" h& D* f9 j9 n L4 ?- e
+ W' `/ K+ v$ S) O2 R9 D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。% k! u) M) y: D
2 y: f# }8 Y2 K7 G9 r3 rTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.8 M; e4 P9 w9 p( @/ a9 I
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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。7 L" w7 P( u- K' J G
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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 ]1 K5 T9 C0 x. g- c1 O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”。) O5 O' W% `+ B" c8 o; e; v
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