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大学英语美文摘录：
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生命就是小甜饼：/ ~. H7 f+ J: v
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.* W# N6 h N2 Y1 f
* l" U4 I( v) p7 o# J" C/ K1 P( N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 X2 G8 E7 a" f! e( C
& _. M, W0 X. [* w/ K1 VIf 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。6 i) Z6 m& A- Y* w9 ]8 K& e. u
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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.5 p8 w e4 K; o8 n
/ K7 g) G4 O5 J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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- T% j4 f: H F- r EA 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。6 R1 Q. t5 \& m; ]$ z: a4 \
' |) a: q, l, \ t# ~When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.2 ~3 c) f! k, R. `8 c/ a! U
4 |3 S. ?, a; a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。1 a$ P1 u T* P" }8 S
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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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# @3 q6 Z9 i( v1 d+ {: d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。' q# M& ~6 _ _6 w
' I7 R# }, D% c0 ~; D/ sThe 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.% ~) Y `/ T l7 @# Y8 a. D
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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. + `' U; n2 Y: A$ ~$ z2 N* q3 X
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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.
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9 V* k2 M" N) [2 d& b你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。0 Q" J0 L5 y7 s7 j0 \
# U( L0 @2 h* {5 EHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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; {4 [! {9 R: ]" l) | q$ L8 p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。! S0 W$ ^& f+ k4 m) H. L
3 K# W* R9 E( ~1 E+ E5 {/ NFor 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. "% S. V8 w, F! r! a" ], ~2 b {: |
& X1 m! O' y/ @) w" i- N+ 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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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。 i0 L) h0 d+ ]( E) 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."3 N+ ~0 ]$ i7 P- a: B' V3 @1 {
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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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