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大学英语美文摘录：9 C3 e6 r! s1 X0 o: C7 A/ d
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生命就是小甜饼：; Q% _# y I- N4 v/ q: L
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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+ @' ~/ C0 O4 Q! i! y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”。 }& F* p. J/ {2 V
2 }; c9 B- g/ B% ^If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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4 z- d p% d8 `8 Y- y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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& C& Q9 z* I; L7 L- 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.) V9 E4 \- ?$ d- u' Q
0 _5 G {9 b* m% ^8 z: m: S0 P" b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。. d" ~6 h$ P; O4 b; C$ @- T6 H
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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.& R- ~% k6 B& K3 z# B0 n
; x3 z6 P. g2 L2 t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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. v# A9 {8 [6 YWhen 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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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。/ f/ k! }0 X2 `* z
4 x' F' L$ @1 b; T" @" ^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.2 V: K% d- q/ a* X2 v- }& ]- i' f
3 ]; s. ]8 b/ K# ^+ e7 B+ 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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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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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。( b; i, H% H: v& x8 s
: {4 q1 w: C+ v3 M" n3 D. ?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. . [) G" d: p' o/ z
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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。# ]2 l6 @5 M( U. F2 H7 O0 b- D* Q- C
: {' j i9 g m& w) ZYou 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。/ n- m/ Q# A) ^9 `, E$ g0 R
& `# a- E i" R. u$ DHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.9 B7 X2 n1 ~4 N1 m- s9 @. o
0 P1 \* _0 S% R- d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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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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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。: @* m& c) w) O+ a
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.% Z/ L) N+ v7 K9 N
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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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0 e0 ?6 a- V& @4 P4 [ |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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