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大学英语美文摘录：) Y* e1 I" d! i' u
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生命就是小甜饼：
0 B4 ~2 P" m* M& I7 t. aOne 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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9 ~3 s" q* W" `/ v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”。$ m: q! h9 q# |+ L' q q8 R
9 _" j' r& u- I8 b9 k' x7 rIf 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。
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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./ X9 h9 [5 q7 S* T* v
9 U6 P4 Z' |- d7 v$ @+ c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。! W7 ? g( l8 i$ T
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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。0 q8 a+ [2 o: W8 ?' i, Y0 x1 D
. I4 g" b" _$ H* \When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.- ]9 o! D4 Z1 i [; i$ }' P
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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。6 j# @# u) h; p+ d
) e" h& a2 f1 [6 f( c% l2 {; b. j O& m# ZBut 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 S; @5 H6 `" [) _! ]
6 x" \7 D- W6 q8 h/ u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。 @6 m+ P& b( z O# ?3 k3 q
) u; I( A. B; u/ t% z% T; z! R, ]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.4 p/ T1 {4 y1 `' H! q* f
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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。 H7 i# F+ l t. x; p
# z- q% B$ ?4 c- e/ @4 mYou 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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! b" x' z5 R3 u: a9 j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.
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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e; p( k b+ D) R L9 b+ pHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.$ F7 F4 p r! F" q- L+ }
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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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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. "- s o/ F2 o- o# B
) Q# M, w3 u- ^# c, i7 w9 O! c8 h* [: Z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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" c- l1 {: s1 I4 ~Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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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。% t% Z/ M6 j& `% b Q* o8 h$ x3 e) J
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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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3 J$ K9 K* I7 c/ i4 c: D4 M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”。6 F; d* ]9 ?0 D4 y: H& D) ]1 l
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