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大学英语美文摘录：
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6 t5 M U( g5 H1 E生命就是小甜饼：# Q4 y8 K: `. G3 ~* U/ M; K7 s
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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3 U8 v; k9 E; Z+ Q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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& }8 X/ Q- I. N' Q& y4 MIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.+ k n7 g$ Z7 c, j" z( d# L& o& D3 e
7 K, ]& s' b. T9 |7 M* ^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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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.; _; `" \6 f* K5 N
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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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# I v) n( Y! fA 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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& o# Y. N+ r4 y5 X& 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。1 P( ~' r+ U! V
$ i7 M; z7 I4 N" L5 I XWhen 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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3 t7 w @1 w) H8 e& C. a& e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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u9 r* Q! o# qBut 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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* q7 _; R1 c: _4 S! S* N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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* u- E$ Z# r# XThe 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.- _2 C0 G7 b9 g" Q2 x
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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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6 I. \) I% x6 i, VYou 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. ) Z0 ?# T2 V" P3 c: D
2 Y+ M( {+ h8 J2 u5 Y0 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。8 M1 s$ k, w2 S7 U6 g; |
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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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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。: i( i& h, c* b: s6 |4 E
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.: T* L8 L# x* B5 g! E
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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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G7 q. }9 l% q. ~5 mFor 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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7 q! D! ^9 |7 n- X* V$ N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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5 y# g4 m* G! T Y7 `1 o3 C) N) DTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.: d0 h7 c/ {) j U: K& @
- R& r, ]& X$ ?/ C! a s“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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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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