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大学英语美文摘录：
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生命就是小甜饼：
! w- l+ E- Z4 f6 HOne 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.9 X0 @4 r7 o6 e
9 U6 _, ?1 `9 a, I1 q% f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." `6 M( F3 T, Z3 Y8 C' C% o
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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) F4 k* l' ?/ A& Q9 a. }$ ]
1 A& p; _' N$ w4 h8 a% q+ @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.. }$ {2 m2 x) ~! a
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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。3 A( ]. r: U& Z, ^
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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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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。
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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.+ r p/ {3 p& D! D# W
# C- a# A4 h) l( }/ w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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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.
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. G9 _3 t* M" w2 c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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% a2 i( e. \. @; r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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_) F% m& ]' f! [; f% XYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。2 U2 D4 W$ Z: \, s$ o
2 i3 V5 h! S, E5 y, g. \! YHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.$ Y) V! P1 y5 n7 y0 \2 z: U
$ q: p. A. y- D m. m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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' ^& z R2 u' xFor 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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& p; H/ b* x {9 ]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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/ k/ d3 Z, [8 }Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.; H+ O+ x" Q5 D9 p, S: q. d: Z
! X1 d6 c. }9 B" I+ w“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。) y) w. \! P, Q& K5 W
. v" L4 b( R- ]$ ]0 c2 k5 Q3 \. XLife. 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”。% f3 Q( `, V- R; t& a
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