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大学英语美文摘录：
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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.) W( B- q9 ]6 R5 [$ m
5 K% B& C; T; c$ K3 _; K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”。7 w) j/ ~. D$ x a. X) E
5 {+ n/ h' Q- D' e1 G1 MIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.; }/ e! Z9 C! `- g ~0 s; c) h
1 |# @; |& P; I, {# F% `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。1 Q; Z4 p( L( V. s
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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.3 V' f6 F4 X2 w# j. z" U
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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。6 H+ U5 |: ?% ~9 H! B
' ^5 B- X3 A" F+ lA 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。5 \ h4 {4 | c% M
6 O. }/ u) N! e* H0 l( \ AWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy., t: [; {5 z, B
: }: _* I' B0 I5 \5 Q! C7 N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。2 k5 `$ N; y0 P( @4 X
4 o1 ~+ f" b/ }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.+ z, G* `! W2 m+ x: P- `2 L. O
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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。+ V/ Q4 S) p0 C: B+ ?8 p4 G2 d
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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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- e3 H6 x1 i% S) T9 f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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( \1 X) j# ~" qYou 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。
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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.- Q$ d+ P% l; c8 e9 `7 C1 H. j
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。5 f$ H0 }5 P0 `/ W- b& n4 H: m
; a2 n8 z- R# ?' b5 \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。
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- C& h+ T5 }' s7 YFor 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。
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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2 o' p, H- F; N* m“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。5 L: V; w9 Q7 U; N# V
6 y& X5 N% D; _# RLife. 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 D) v3 z$ B! ^5 [) w! U
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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”。# |/ J! D! T8 s! N
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