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大学英语美文摘录：
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生命就是小甜饼：5 b5 a1 _$ b- i; p1 A C/ c
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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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.9 L3 G7 ^# ^; \" U0 {
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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。
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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.) b% [6 C$ E7 W) s5 c
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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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6 n' E- H# n' v3 k' D9 VA 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.5 S6 }& K! a1 a- ]8 y! H
" `0 Q1 V+ k: l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.+ w/ h; U* w! ?
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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。 D2 D6 |! J8 H5 O8 W, t
: g& |9 M9 V* y: 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.4 z, r ^+ d" n# m" E
8 g! m! A7 i1 D- ? e6 w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 b. D! n- ~; V* J) XThe 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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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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( f5 d. Y3 Z5 v9 EYou 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. 1 q6 B: }; ?& O6 h5 | |/ y
1 M" `! Y; O8 }3 s+ b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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) ?4 w0 K% S! Y% X1 FYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。: f# M; h$ P4 T: C* f3 c
5 J6 h# d* }3 O$ X" U! qHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.! X, M' d, z( h% V6 Z E7 f9 B9 t
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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。3 a! u: O1 W( F U0 J
0 R# F' m3 p4 l! H6 O- z; XFor 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. "5 e# w6 k& t: y' c
2 ~" F! F9 w; ~, f2 B7 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。0 v1 X1 |4 p' K8 f/ z9 G! M
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.- H7 W) d: q: z/ `0 _
, @2 y- ]1 D( B2 J) B1 {* K“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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) N7 A- s3 L$ U+ }2 cLife. 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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' F+ Z& h; t" m% Q7 V. X l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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