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大学英语美文摘录：6 S& e; y/ i) z4 }+ B6 }) g+ a5 R9 ?
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0 I }$ j0 u% L/ D1 c8 ZOne 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 |& Q3 b4 ]0 O- M! p T; H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”。% e/ H+ I4 w$ q& l* b0 ?' `5 l/ N
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.+ ?4 a' W& V0 n" h% `7 t4 x
7 f9 s T2 N! B# G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。/ {% H( C2 l5 N0 h( A/ f" k
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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.2 E4 B3 ]: J+ W( Q2 ]- N
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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 y- O/ H+ U% S5 y* rA 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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. T& f9 Y s0 t* ~% f, t0 \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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; M$ N8 e2 N% `" s' m }When 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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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.5 S$ c Y/ r' g9 v D( s8 \
: ]6 K$ `8 d: P# i& K6 H2 q7 L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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* Q4 V1 m$ H3 j5 J4 M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。) l* T$ a9 x8 M* n
6 U Z8 o" v, RYou 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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, l' V- W, t9 a: k* E0 G/ C4 @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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) |6 E7 y- X. T# e4 FYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.7 ?6 m& @' \; h/ M1 L$ `* I0 z6 f. B
" ^* P2 t, z d3 K9 p$ K# v+ U8 B* m你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。0 ~8 A: C* d, C
% R* }' J8 k' z& g$ E& IHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.+ i; ~, [% V% T
; i9 @$ t! K% t/ D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。5 e. I) S) E6 K* C
# a r3 @) y d3 W% ]) e$ d ]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. "
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0 H. C9 u w, E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。2 R. ~/ h! N6 Y& K7 ]
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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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; o% I7 j" g5 \) Y5 p( {$ e“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."/ A& {; x8 O9 v3 |1 Z6 Y
" f: {* [$ I9 t/ S$ L6 K9 [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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