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大学英语美文摘录：
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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.
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0 Y, J1 c3 N: t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”。
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.; Q5 i+ W2 Y* |) j/ ~( T
( R7 R8 d! m9 B$ I! S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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& {! x$ o9 X" z o! ESome 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.# B( Y1 Q& c7 P: q/ D, b
- ?4 K* Q D0 n# a! @& g' Y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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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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+ _; w) ]2 z% ~2 j% ~4 a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。+ c7 s g3 Y3 `# ^# B9 v
2 p; [* k. ]' t, j0 eWhen 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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4 v( ~* q* g: o8 H3 q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.. d. l6 p7 ]# Q4 B' B5 ^
, P# c9 [6 R/ V! v& _9 w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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7 D3 x9 {3 ~# {6 b: dThe 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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, K$ B, W+ C7 V2 h# ]7 y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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0 |1 |* f7 z) Q5 QYou 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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{2 _7 V, u+ X; E' H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 r4 k2 @$ O+ f. T$ S3 M3 h: H
/ d7 b3 D1 t; m' A! J sYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.- L, x8 H; K% h i+ H9 W
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。; |4 f6 ]. g2 V0 R2 U2 ?
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.+ D4 t5 d% F% k; D$ H/ T; S
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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。7 f2 T( Q% X! p/ Q; X
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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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3 g9 L. B# f, N1 }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。% c" U( l3 z. [% w( X6 V
# B( n; b( s0 g4 d' YTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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. w: _- C$ C1 L8 p0 Y, `$ x* o“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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0 w. F2 t. f8 w$ [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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