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大学英语美文摘录：7 m8 k; P4 C( F3 _1 Z* x& Y& T
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& J" Q+ |# A' EOne 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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, B2 p+ P/ P/ l3 l" l. b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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/ l6 u9 f) V. r, |. NIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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[$ ]' i7 U( M+ v1 A2 e. y* L& `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。) U1 ]3 t1 x+ r6 T
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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.0 c' v9 h$ A9 V- \3 a& ?7 g( @
% v3 X" H9 F. Y @2 y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。3 W8 B# R$ f+ t% ^/ w
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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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% ?; O( ~2 m; w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。8 U6 d; [- Z" R) X. i2 k( g0 l' `
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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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# S% d/ ~4 t$ ~9 d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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+ _+ h4 S8 B6 {1 UBut 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 d: u+ p( x4 Q1 f' t9 t
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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。
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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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' @9 b, _3 V8 l: {' i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 f. V" O' {* f( B1 C, H* O- U
) y$ a l6 E) S" hYou 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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' T! }& p9 {" x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 @7 s' |. S8 |* f0 U' P
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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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N% _ l4 H; r2 m( B# x' a- H你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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" n7 X: _: L, ~. ^: q- c8 x D# T- Z- vHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him., w h( d: J+ t' U
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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。! _5 A3 M' h9 \+ C$ m
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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. "# t/ m+ }* m( A, E c/ H
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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。: P" P6 v/ w4 ~& ^. E6 A
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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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“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。- A' w+ \* Y2 F# }
# p# U0 ]: r2 S7 L" b8 pLife. 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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