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大学英语美文摘录：9 d: A2 f! W: [- T0 K% }' K
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* U3 `+ y4 S; N' i* {5 C9 C8 nOne 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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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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+ i8 T5 i: U& U, f) ]If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.( ]) U& ?% {. E+ }- @0 z
( }. @) s+ _6 b7 z. H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。- u, z, c; }, a) A0 S
; i2 F1 g, ?" M+ E3 f( s# [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.+ o& w, w" l+ g+ }: Z/ h' @! ]
# l3 \+ _+ C, h0 v7 M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。) V5 {7 K" b5 X5 E2 V6 u
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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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5 Z5 Z2 y7 X! Y8 P, u" W; k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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, o0 o# H. b- nWhen 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。
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; D$ A r) p# Q3 q! d: k, v$ qBut 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.# K. S& x- U/ ?9 E5 F
, m$ K* w# G: L7 }; X2 r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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5 }$ F2 D3 {: G, ~: }, ^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.$ V. B! k8 O7 s6 J3 D
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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。
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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. ; A& `8 ?; Q# z# h
B; l/ u+ V: T( U2 L) f, `' d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。4 H# J& B7 r& K2 \
# S# a! x) `5 }) {$ i6 R5 H. HYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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. d( L% D) ~" H7 A& P: X" r0 \* e你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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" k# O( F: J% R g9 A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. ". }# @2 g: L4 y0 ^! E
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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。) X2 J/ r6 g' [7 H. [) k
" o7 D3 ?3 S' hTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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$ L# D# t, E4 V8 s2 S“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 Q. \1 v4 E; i
" a$ ^! A; A l- `- MLife. 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."% [0 ?3 | A5 Z2 [- i' T+ V0 R
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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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