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大学英语美文摘录：9 r+ m7 w/ q" R5 F
: n) ~/ w9 A4 s+ l生命就是小甜饼：& x/ R/ {8 ?6 {. e
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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0 o$ x- M. _- m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”。- R7 I4 D: o5 R- N- ?
7 X4 y! k8 F' J" ?If 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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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.
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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。
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$ ?$ o. ] r0 sA 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。; `! |& k9 i2 C2 J1 n, U* a1 m
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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.; |5 Y C: q" Q q! M T U, ?
5 C% x9 H! y8 Q7 D* B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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8 C7 ]$ O# ?3 b$ M6 x" i- H( FThe 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.5 W% O& I& G$ ^- a
1 s4 i( K+ W7 U& }5 B. D1 H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.
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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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You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. |9 Z/ r# }" |* G0 Z% Q
1 H( L6 T1 u+ i, Q你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。9 d V1 M' o3 u
* ?* i* \& P% P9 \4 o. LHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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& F2 P* G6 C8 ]: X8 N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. "
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1 r) e7 U" P0 W/ i# T* }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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6 V! s% V- p. o* o9 ]$ YTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.; l; A" R# C2 p H8 j: d3 v1 ~! e
$ k8 c& ~0 k' e; M“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。; q: o4 \% \2 v' w# y
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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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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”。" V. j, e! x/ W" z9 ^
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