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大学英语美文摘录：
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生命就是小甜饼：8 C& a. k: y3 ]/ M# x
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.6 @& g) {5 \- x
/ m* \& Q5 J1 p" [4 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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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.$ `& F7 Y* F- Q3 d' \, A) }
- A D. k) t( R% J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。4 e; j' a$ D- X( c
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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.* g0 u! L. V& \8 r3 S/ M2 p- `
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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.3 X- P# C8 ^3 t, h) R
* y: P, p9 X+ F9 ~& 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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) m# i9 X+ P9 g, H9 \- uWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.! |5 Y6 J9 U0 s9 ~8 S7 \; n/ A
) O* K4 c- A/ G6 ~ k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。4 \, _; z4 R+ P/ H% O
) a1 O, M& e) D9 A3 jBut 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.& G* d3 y# L4 ]5 A+ e
) y2 y- I" N) I% 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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0 x! T) Z9 X9 D; W+ y3 B' j1 NThe 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.3 F# Y$ J9 e7 |# b4 d& l7 V
/ ^" ?2 Q) O% k5 T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。0 U9 D2 S; v* a
4 N: V7 ?2 G$ K! V {# O( JYou 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. * W3 q$ m* S/ s; _2 A0 W
, ]4 u6 W L( ?' q/ ~, h6 s0 s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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' b. E5 q' J8 GYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it." @1 m o; X& {- Q
3 D' J: \; b8 v% |. k: [& G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.% f8 `0 S. J( e" S6 u, e& a9 R
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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. "
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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.
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J7 X% ~; i) ^8 z& W$ P" z“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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; @- w# i5 }- u5 J! U# B U5 I3 @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." B1 ~% y7 U: r
4 b: `" z( F. c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”。- J3 G# c& u* [# j" m
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