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大学英语美文摘录：
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生命就是小甜饼：0 w% B9 g5 ?$ L; @2 m9 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.7 h" C" S3 p" k" ^) y
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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”。+ ^1 S: k2 a7 @) m. f* t
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.: w+ s0 o; K/ o* \9 H- @: d
9 u0 J, \4 f3 d5 F8 M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.
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( P% E& v( W, z M1 Z6 Q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 Y4 a; M3 |! @# P) M2 X
& q6 Q7 A3 Z4 Q9 U( l- g$ _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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# }' [: f0 ?! B8 C. ~0 y6 v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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# a; J9 f' c& p# w6 ?4 n0 WWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.. n$ k3 \& X/ R9 f$ A# Q0 W* P
0 K( I' D. c' K( {4 e1 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。
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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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& @4 S/ F# {; c& y1 [" F. Q1 |' o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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: A e/ q- n1 ?9 y3 A9 ^( wThe 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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0 P5 d! X5 y7 n9 Y9 ?3 b8 {0 A, B Z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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& |5 ?8 f' w6 T/ gYou 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. " f' ~4 V' ~& t' g
$ P5 D9 G/ B# t1 F$ Q# g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。3 j. m. P2 W. }* S( \5 I; t
# b- s5 d M$ m$ L& i& r1 X5 FYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.* ` v0 m) }' R6 |7 n! U+ C) W# W5 z
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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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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.( A+ ~8 A* h. G9 q
6 g2 m$ k' R$ S5 H" l7 J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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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. ") B& o4 x% e6 D
, K: @+ K0 d4 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。9 }* Y! U% R* Z! b% U
$ i, E& p' {3 cTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.4 }* y/ _/ m! |/ I& n, L% h
) @ o$ x2 C( p' U“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。0 |6 o8 f2 ^( O% ]3 E: C6 W
& N, K' r+ H Z, P+ C( JLife. 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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9 D/ W; X( ?9 W$ x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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