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大学英语美文摘录：& O" u/ H8 N" Y& |6 N+ y
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生命就是小甜饼：
# P4 ?6 }# i1 P1 a, [% LOne 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.4 f' b4 ~8 b" ~8 A9 t
2 n; m t" W2 I F5 ~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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, g6 H) w( [. h; G7 X: f* e4 NIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing./ I1 w" V! M+ ^# b5 ], U
9 A; u* n3 p3 z2 t$ s" ~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.9 ]1 u \$ Q5 R8 q
- Q$ o. H0 _8 \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。" n) |4 g, T9 @
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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." M5 R; M8 U8 ^5 Z9 d( x1 J
9 h" g" A8 W, J% c! I2 U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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When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.5 u# g: R9 @. ?2 i, e4 ^4 P
. {9 b' i" g. H( S/ ~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.9 |; z6 q8 ^( o
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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。0 \2 C7 b+ t- m( U+ Y
. ^+ ^$ Y* W3 z& X% bThe 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.( q1 \4 g& c% L
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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. % c) |: u. S0 \5 g5 ?: F$ C' K) }; T
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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.1 @1 }0 j# m7 G9 G! R- Z
# g; d' B# T% b6 a; r你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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' m* d+ K( K$ K7 lHaving 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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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. "- f) n& }5 m# O0 S# O' M& B
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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。% D" P5 S; z6 D; f$ d" y1 H
( J7 i2 ^" b' t4 b$ ^Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.& g7 t1 j% r8 Z2 q9 O. S
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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。 M. z6 t: Q1 ?9 ~( K
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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."' r. `/ D) S. t/ B: Y7 F
1 v- E; T! h6 q# L/ k: b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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