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大学英语美文摘录：
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生命就是小甜饼：
$ f6 }/ i$ ]' @9 Q3 y9 F) {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 U" a8 b( g [
" ^( j+ M2 U& {7 f' ~* u8 {; YIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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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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k' o8 l" o3 n BSome 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.) s8 Z; Y+ T; ?$ D! t C
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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。5 ~% }& Q& Q, @
1 V0 H5 F! f. _* |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.- [- ~0 y Q5 d! o% |/ ~
( Q \; Y) N* Y$ P U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。; g x) i D& I \& h+ n
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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。
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6 J1 }, Y; [ t0 L7 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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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.) i; C5 E- S' I+ W- i: f4 [8 |$ T
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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。' L0 j( H9 |2 k' J& h. s
, ?& A3 \+ Q; I \# z! i0 xYou 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。
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: H& ^4 ?4 \- l/ U0 R9 ~6 AYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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9 N1 w- b! s$ p你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。/ Y7 \/ y7 l& _) K9 r
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.' m' ^# F- E, U3 H7 H8 J$ t
/ U0 S l0 B+ q1 ?; @' C8 {3 z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。' D' V0 }8 O8 C1 z* x- |
6 [7 r! c* e. F- J4 p* J# A) QFor 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. "; j9 N. v i# V% ~& D# {; I# l
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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。) d8 Q* j) I8 X9 D& Y# W$ O8 W/ {
( c N% w/ [: `" \6 x8 ITwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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+ e) J7 E6 a) E# ?8 s1 J/ ` N“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。0 I1 g/ U0 ^8 v- N# U2 u, Y' K
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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."; _3 U9 I/ j) R, S
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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”。
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