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大学英语美文摘录：$ L7 m. o- E2 n# d0 I( |6 Q
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生命就是小甜饼：
; F3 k3 e# |8 Z) NOne 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.! n6 ^* X/ B: Z3 ~# ~5 p) W
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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”。% h* \) c9 x, I! z
$ u3 O" ]. L/ ?8 f: D1 }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。: M) b2 x' v5 o$ _4 Y9 n$ [4 a, l
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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。; ^' W$ |: a) F2 q
* E& y; h: `5 V( vA 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.' j! ]6 B! V/ s
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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。% f8 t+ N2 p; U6 a% m% z: E6 @7 ^ Z
: N8 p9 C% K2 n& t; Q; S% VWhen 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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0 s* U% K( h. ~% H2 X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.1 g0 P% f$ B" E; f3 f. Q1 a6 D- I
( F" T1 `$ P! p7 s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.1 I' e3 E* Q" ?6 [5 u% @4 f
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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。$ P$ W- L/ e+ p X
( |& X# y, u4 LYou 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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# {! U$ l! \+ ]/ d* H9 i) b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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. T$ T0 _. | L! vYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.7 Y& p, `/ u9 {) D
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。& d# V7 ~- N! L8 ]. ^, A, x* `
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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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。2 A+ V7 Y1 D% S0 @; W
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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. "+ z4 t8 \0 |& u" g+ g3 v4 q7 B6 v
0 w% _* y9 _+ G. o, L( a/ O, ^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。& b7 U8 A$ h! ^ j; v
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.$ U- H4 G% z- W' a% g/ y9 [! N3 z1 x
1 t7 d2 ~4 c8 u) A" b7 P3 e“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。2 v) F# p' n% n' M$ W) L
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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”。
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