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大学英语美文摘录：
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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.9 n; ?) h3 d0 F# c: P, `
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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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& r' K6 o5 z, p( J& t3 vIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.9 V. p, A2 e3 O* r/ t# j. S% E: F8 w
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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。/ N( I# H9 r. r
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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.
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! O% k; k9 U: C M u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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) ]# \. y0 T4 H+ \# z* H3 _6 {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.. Q0 m3 y& g, G
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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。' b3 { x1 G" J8 ?
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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.0 X% p/ [- G' G. T; O6 z
- k& I- ^8 Z1 E- H# 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。' n+ }. F; j. d5 Y- K' X! l, @1 O4 B
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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.
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& E" D/ Z" E' u) j7 x2 J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。) G4 I! k( V2 z4 r( l! ^
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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.# F& k$ J0 I" p, b% G/ R/ [
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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。# i- a( ~5 K) j1 X
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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. 7 X: _4 n0 g, i. I. y: T
. k+ C+ `, s& { \( Q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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. ~' S3 y F$ Y; Z6 ~" 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。3 W, R; a) I' e- j7 J
. `% P" p8 u( {& E/ H! \( sHaving 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。: |5 E% \ f, U$ B/ W1 l
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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. "( Q3 `5 c% q# ?, O" Z: {
, l- G) D# B, `, @9 |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。( p8 ]% A8 z* D8 b z( x9 y
* ^( q: ~/ v3 W& mTwo 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。. D) C W* b' o, I. g9 M3 A
5 p* c2 S( Z6 I, tLife. 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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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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