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大学英语美文摘录：# p( K# f) m4 }2 ^! h' |% ~
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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.6 `; z- I' P. ~- }1 p0 `
" U% K, T% l7 |( E3 m/ x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”。! n* A5 y' ^ H1 J* z0 F6 m3 W/ q5 x
! E3 r. j5 L4 nIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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# n, e) I h- n2 }: ? D; q4 E, G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。1 D4 Z3 G! ^: c) K8 u/ N$ j4 b) H \! N
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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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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。+ t+ ?, R/ t* o% {4 T5 i M
3 r9 Z( N3 j" y4 z0 S9 \0 H/ uA 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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2 X+ [1 e/ s# ?& S& D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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/ ?1 e! P9 u3 c1 {' S0 S2 XWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.5 s2 g5 O$ U( m! S
% h9 N) j; K6 U& `% i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。$ ?# p3 z c" j6 V, \
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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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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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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.5 c* w2 r" Q5 t* |1 n9 ]) g
9 Y k; b- R( t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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% n' R7 \2 s, i5 {' l( x: Z1 G; e3 @ FYou 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. 8 m& `3 {6 T: t5 i' P% c& O) F
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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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3 {" G F2 P9 A. F% H9 {You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.2 i- N# L/ p. o4 I8 X/ M: n. P1 `
7 R- Z f& h/ R/ M你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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1 u% [3 Y1 N7 q2 A; ~; |" y4 `, MHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.5 r# p+ Y2 R% ~& ?; b5 j7 |9 U
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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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3 l& o; j( z* L/ h, {- |+ K, i2 z; aFor 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. "
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- Q9 o# R/ B# Z' _" s! m. ^" `, E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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! s2 M! ^, O2 I& M: TTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.' p$ r1 D V- Y7 ?! i+ @7 x( E# e
( o+ _ x+ m' m8 L/ x" ]" h( |“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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Life. 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.", \; ~- T" ?, R7 c: X
) ] V! _. i. ]) s+ U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”。1 q# P) R0 S2 X; T s1 Q9 t4 X
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