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大学英语美文摘录：
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9 L( Z+ z4 [( t3 p% m生命就是小甜饼：! {0 |9 s9 o% Y* w% h. H
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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& L2 c8 [6 K# K( `9 e) A( ?; i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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# t8 B6 B0 @7 z; I- kIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.* g' z: Z) e8 ]$ c) W& A
9 k5 ]2 M/ _* P& b) I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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7 O7 F, n# U( _* z* SSome 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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. S3 n, X7 |, S1 n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.
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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。
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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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8 Z, d7 }+ v- v8 f% m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。
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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.* W5 S: n; {' @: m
6 N- S" O" e: |9 ^+ ]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 w* q& `- Q5 U
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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.3 V$ \% X* R$ l$ p" Q
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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。# x& }' e' d* C
: e9 U3 N5 g6 I8 pYou 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。$ [. T% x) s: d+ w9 D' \2 F
6 k( r9 {8 ~2 ?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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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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3 U0 w) N0 S$ B* @1 w" vHaving 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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9 v6 E$ Z! M' _# @) Z' hFor 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. "/ o' a- T$ x0 B
3 a' h; f' r2 r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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: V9 f2 E$ V5 y# {+ KLife. 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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" s @. [4 n+ _# Z9 Y) A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”。2 O7 F* Y8 F$ t6 T7 s, k- P
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