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大学英语美文摘录：
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生命就是小甜饼：6 |0 d" B; l0 q5 d
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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5 ?5 y8 O1 H2 o: T2 ~( @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”。# w* [+ x z% C/ [4 o% a* O
& t" \, w( p* k# j! Y/ mIf 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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) b2 J, Z0 P$ b" ~- sSome 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./ \7 F9 h9 [5 B5 g
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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。7 s+ `" U! {( K: e* R& @
$ D* _6 ]) v" \8 m* P1 [8 FA 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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) \. W0 `+ o ] {& s, C5 H& {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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5 E+ Z) i. J1 gWhen 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; ^+ O/ z+ A
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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 W: M/ f9 M. X0 d* Y( p9 l
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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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; h2 z# C$ b! U* `- ]4 ^- E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。; }0 Q8 D* `5 ]0 J& P
* l5 T1 A3 F0 g, i' k: |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.
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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。1 D7 R$ E0 z* Q3 Z/ Z1 n9 b) H
4 s p# a- b* S6 M( [: T5 aYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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/ H5 s1 h, V) r: J6 E) [/ S6 z5 a你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。# N j" z' o# \+ v+ l# d( T7 q
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.3 a, z$ w, l9 C
% f8 }+ n5 G4 {! m0 P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。, A1 A) G1 I) F. D1 ^
" ~ ^4 s" Z& d$ r) SFor 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. "% n! w( ^, x' F7 g
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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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$ c% q/ X8 z* B( y# nTwo 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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! N) ~- X- g' x% zLife. 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”。& l4 u* I/ n+ D+ l2 I' d- |
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