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大学英语美文摘录：
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! Z8 c6 i$ d @3 Z. B生命就是小甜饼：3 _! o& t3 Z: v' S5 m2 {
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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) U Q" f% S) }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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! E; M5 M7 \& p, GIf 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。5 M/ O" o1 K) l2 s
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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.$ F* g# @( a& G/ |+ Z) @' e2 o
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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。
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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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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。: A: C+ p _' j8 W4 Q/ S
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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. R% V" q! t& r$ U) ? J
# B- B3 ~# `, J9 q8 y# Y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。; y& o/ t& W9 r, \
7 e6 b3 y9 J" v) B6 z3 wBut 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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% u4 m2 Z% c {2 Z+ q3 {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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% z, V+ X* {' k( _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.7 X" M0 A* }. n7 a+ n
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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。 S, V5 v' |3 l- H
: M4 V& ]0 C& b" l# I/ M OYou 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。
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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.7 ]& _" w G$ P3 \; J8 H/ c" B
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。- ?/ L' l1 _) r
) l) V( {: ^/ d( q# n1 yHaving 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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2 Y' F: b2 z$ J/ S* ]: vFor 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. "
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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。' V7 r6 o# D7 o% m: p
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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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- [1 S g; _( ^“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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- R6 F3 Z, B, {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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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”。" B. n4 c6 e" N: L
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