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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.
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3 i( I, @- C( T8 _1 l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”。2 v: ^; F3 ?! C. d
2 N8 m; D9 i* c; T9 y. FIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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& A2 m! A1 r% `7 q/ D z7 G, V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。0 L4 u$ y7 V% O: m$ Q( e
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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.
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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。3 b, } m2 F T; L
2 k. ?- v3 H- I3 y- KA 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。! I+ u4 j! d' T- f* n
6 e& v7 O) Q) ZWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.7 A: P- l5 F/ m* k5 c
9 e! v- f6 L9 ]3 Z% j3 c; O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。8 S( @& d% D8 W# L$ e& ]0 {: D
2 I! `8 m; D1 O* g9 ^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.- N0 V0 F8 q0 \ D! ^$ Y5 u& j
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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.1 f# `+ U/ |6 C; |3 Q
& d3 w6 c; u$ H/ ^1 d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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% N7 ?3 T4 Y1 u% dYou 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. 8 M: r. x, H! W* o
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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。( t* O, C2 |# O) F9 \& z3 }# p
9 a+ ?/ z' T. ^You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.% y" _1 T! i& l# ?' z: z# P
9 m, C0 @# Z4 U" T" Z0 t2 x你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 G6 Z( D5 X% U' L
5 P& M; \ K- m4 hHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.; ^" E% S. }3 n( k( C$ }6 ]
( g9 k1 p! e7 K$ R8 l- A( g! ?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。+ y! ]5 A) P# r5 U# o
% ~/ M% t0 q: ]( U( b3 y& `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. "+ m: }! \4 M7 L" Q- J% U
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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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“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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. Y" t( }1 Z5 R( k0 d% YLife. 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.", v- c, K( T' a' b2 h
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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”。( h+ u& P+ k" j% H
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