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大学英语美文摘录：7 |2 j+ N5 {2 S+ \) u( Y
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% a+ F; M- `$ F$ sOne 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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( b% a6 p5 P4 q' Y' \0 j# W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”。) {" l7 Y, b0 H9 X' N
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.9 h/ p* D) f* A2 t3 x/ C+ G. w
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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.
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1 }: F) k9 W; R; m0 ]' T9 R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。. ]5 T( l6 t) e- r
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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.9 _4 `& ]5 ^2 t# H1 i% U; z
8 [9 [8 g, S' B: c; ?) i6 L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! F- K7 R0 r3 E# }
, Q$ e2 \0 ]/ |. a$ dWhen 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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0 ~# X' s. Q: q' q* J) h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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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.
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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。8 \4 I7 U3 D: Y. f; l/ L
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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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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.
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4 _ l6 y( N& ~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。: D/ E4 [" o* B
( Z/ a' g: ]% V1 IYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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7 g" x& r2 R# Q5 H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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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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- \, ~/ x( u6 tFor 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. "7 G3 S( I3 t; ~* a( z! L
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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.) i; @" D% X4 o( K6 G3 }
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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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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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4 I2 h8 i* \# C% g, w: p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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