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大学英语美文摘录：5 l( M& |/ X, K5 x, s
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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.
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7 N1 k0 a/ c3 T0 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”。$ h+ x5 s- x3 H: [
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If 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。/ r8 p M5 f* n; W8 v2 B
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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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* P. b6 j1 h0 E* h5 W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。0 ^+ q9 h+ s" s! O# u7 x
& B2 B0 a* V' E$ g- f& ?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.9 M" K8 j0 N# i6 X) i- h/ E
+ B% `" @; k7 D$ m$ |2 F# |/ _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。6 ?1 |5 b; W1 Q1 f- N7 y W* {
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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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( |. G7 x. v/ c4 i& ]' \5 F* [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。! q/ t: S& X0 s0 i1 ~
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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. D( d7 k8 o# ]( u% o# P+ A. x
( A' h! {6 s9 Q2 x4 X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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; n" k) `2 g% a1 i% W0 FThe 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.4 C% [- F5 s0 v4 x9 {
( J. {9 D/ M/ J b+ c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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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. + z5 D( Q+ n9 k+ ~0 t L& Y# ]
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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。" D2 ]3 W0 q: q" Y, Q
6 h( ~3 N/ A4 ZYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.+ @6 [2 r8 B, F# e
) N: `/ S2 o8 x: q: F9 q你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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: q' }- \ @; p, WHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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8 }6 i; a; n3 \: F- S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。* h% l |5 g3 n8 Y5 S* Y- {
8 G0 I+ T% o& A( s; _! |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. "9 l! K/ e1 G( x$ z# s" P9 f
/ u; I( \$ i) }) `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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l+ V" K4 _8 H5 ~ 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。$ F, K7 ?" m( D
) M5 D& ]# r/ r8 U: _. 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."/ s5 d$ W. e. X
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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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