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大学英语美文摘录：
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生命就是小甜饼：1 P) L; c t5 g% [& D% Z8 N
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.& \/ ~' Q8 c% u/ @. W; M Z
( H* t, P. {. V" F9 n$ 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”。' f1 j( @4 A! G/ j, ] w. o
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.; I* u) b, F4 Z1 [. f# X
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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。- u8 n; L3 `% c B4 z: p
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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.6 J" B' q" C, X% W0 S: H7 i
7 g% R7 F) i8 y) C1 p' E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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: {: _" T# N) H9 r" h1 p' GA 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。0 r3 m& f5 o y* a
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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.
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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。+ [5 w" e9 k$ V7 v, @; O' v
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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.& w7 S+ }5 g9 |6 n; ?
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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。
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1 E3 [' Z; W6 O) }) [- u7 c* dThe 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.' I B/ v/ z3 W6 t; U' K
/ I2 y. b+ j8 K( x$ m Q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。6 k( [$ f1 A1 n/ {6 T( [0 T! c
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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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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 W* p* c7 g# d( p+ S) y* qYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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' z1 ~7 h- }1 T- L你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。/ n- X) Y/ t) n) ]
1 v. T2 ]1 U s1 eHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him." f1 s7 U: x! _' O# M4 y
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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。# N/ i/ u! a2 @3 c$ T4 f, m. K
2 d9 l" o4 f6 lFor 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. ", p) l; y' t4 p& f
' E1 }3 c7 c$ }3 Y3 F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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“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."# c. d/ ]* X* R" q1 P" _' h0 D
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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”。% y& O% c, {1 {1 i! `. h3 T6 G5 A
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