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大学英语美文摘录：, F0 B0 t0 B, t( Z8 U: q, {! r. k* P
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生命就是小甜饼：1 Z' |* b7 D* Q. g3 p. l
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.$ ^$ U6 u. m8 a8 g- j: [
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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”。# |, s1 s3 d! I
# A8 Y' s6 n G: @! ?$ w! }If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.) R/ g/ c, ^2 ?1 D4 z, ?: d$ J
# A4 Y ^* D; I: ^* J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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- f. G( y0 h) ]; J9 i- xSome 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.6 Z3 C+ Z: R: a+ R F
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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。
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/ v% Y0 M6 Y Q: d. L$ o' lA 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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5 ~2 |5 K2 U3 y+ _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./ B! ~/ n+ o8 D: `
% i$ P) D6 f$ X& n) x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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$ T2 y/ Z! m* G2 G, HBut 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.4 h0 t- g0 X# k) }4 ~& v
) | r3 Y1 U `2 T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。& b# E G. } r$ f& I$ ^. _
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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.+ l8 h2 ] X4 L( ?9 ?( O
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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。
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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. " B8 p' {7 x6 d( A) [8 j+ B6 h! E
, ?* Z, }6 E6 X4 E) 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。( w' p( ?- I# \: K9 d
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You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.0 m- r/ _: h4 n) O( Q1 O: u, a$ [
) ]& K8 r( W ~( t( f你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。% K3 n* e0 t3 s1 r4 |
3 U/ z% S i4 T/ d* d3 }8 oHaving 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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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. "
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1 s- F# t8 x6 y1 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。4 m5 s/ @5 |* I8 \
: H5 _" A# z e- @5 n+ b8 S3 OTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.7 J4 @- Q0 H( D2 q
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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。8 a j9 W) l% G* _8 K( l
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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."
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; o4 O0 A- v! \) e% Y- 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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