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大学英语美文摘录：" i+ l P; N2 }+ ^ X# M
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/ s5 W s- q( h3 yOne 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., o, C! C |( V& C; U/ b
5 d" r1 k( \2 q2 g& ^7 r7 j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.
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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。, H& T. n( _7 `8 T
/ \- \/ X* [ E4 ?8 ?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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8 ]5 c0 x- W" oA 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.! V. v9 W7 j0 {# E
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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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! W/ t y3 M! ]9 F" k5 {When 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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. F$ ?8 r+ z$ a$ U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。% l U+ G$ G5 t2 Q
: u" f6 F. I7 N6 }( {6 }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." B% C4 n; `2 H; l7 r* i# u
% \) C% e) o$ d- P8 }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。, g: R: a/ y4 H! `2 p( q, U1 N. k4 G
' d: K: G; p, X* G! \5 K1 A4 x. ^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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* w9 c0 f8 s! I. u. W7 U4 i+ l% 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。2 y2 n: [6 o: q; B5 x
' H7 p H; U, x' C9 b' xYou 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。5 t. p" ^3 R* |* ~( W
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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.; W" H4 T1 D5 j+ q
1 F+ F l U: f0 c2 i0 t你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。) x( t7 ?8 E" z5 o3 _( p& [
- N3 Q' r- w% {$ Q0 A5 D& eHaving 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。
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* [1 e! u3 U' w- k8 y, 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. "
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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。$ B" k2 ^3 {. m: m* q' b+ m4 N
5 x N; O" @3 b5 d! DTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.0 r$ M, W, X# @$ m
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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。
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. \5 i, I7 \9 k9 V4 g# ~% }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."5 _* y8 d" @& y [- v0 p, D
) M! {# Q% K: m0 h5 h: X( \2 D- g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”。' @* j& K" a' a9 ?
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