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大学英语美文摘录：
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生命就是小甜饼：: q& V% U+ i1 j: g( A
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.' s# h! m* j% d7 x! @1 x9 I. i1 `
& g7 }5 e2 P0 H1 @7 f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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. v2 ]% S7 I! p3 zIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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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。; A) C8 f" [4 Q( e) {! m/ D
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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.) p* m( l; H, Z+ G9 v" \( f7 b
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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。8 c+ R; C% v6 a) C0 L( H, t
6 Q+ l; Q! b! O5 Q( A. n9 WA 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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7 h; a, {% O0 N; G! ^2 R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。8 Q+ A5 o/ L9 H3 R! u5 ?3 F/ p7 V
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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。& {4 ] r% g2 |9 M8 d- a4 k! h
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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.0 Y( E4 j, h* W5 E; J) W
B1 |4 ?2 I9 ^6 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。2 G) H. U3 Q" e/ ]$ X; }0 R
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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.' h* v1 |: t F
, m( b7 {0 ?; ?! a7 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。 ~- R& ? D$ B9 J9 a" ~
/ e1 l$ K. Z* b% f/ l& LYou 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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, W9 C# U& B, |! |You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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: K9 ^( \! t" 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.
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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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6 H/ {5 n) m* g1 u& CFor 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. "0 t- C; b N6 y- W& B$ ?( L* V
+ ~, j* G1 G$ J5 s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。8 r Z4 _+ P5 k7 p7 J8 Z4 X. a4 M( X% L
+ x& f! `+ ?* _/ F: \6 _Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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- ]1 Y# T* q+ g' f8 g8 `4 l0 y# J# _“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。5 w- U; M9 w. m2 v! s
4 U+ B# R! k3 y* N1 X9 k7 PLife. 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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4 N0 L0 E: D0 w' C8 y s# C4 n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”。( r! v+ Z, O) l& @. v5 f
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