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大学英语美文摘录：- J5 o* b6 K& F' l
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. T/ c9 a. |) T, }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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& M: z( Y6 a7 d( ?& T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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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing." L. W' W _7 L% I: b
7 ^! R& i8 \* 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。6 ~ D! l0 ~0 M. r
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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。
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. p8 y* ?/ B% k5 `" [, s5 aA 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。# l8 h& u8 P' v: G8 u7 [+ F) Z
: M; z) o! i& d2 A F- TWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.! W0 i, v. S" \
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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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7 r8 R; q0 g) x' L6 Y" [6 fBut 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.& n6 S" @2 p0 {: d
& B0 u! H; P) ~( d! c' p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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& T9 @/ G+ x5 \0 }3 e+ QThe 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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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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) w! ?% t. |1 mYou 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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% F2 Z h1 v- W, f1 Y% y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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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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7 y+ H6 e/ Y) M! k4 h# O你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。$ n6 z" x) I3 N; e7 d
& a5 ?0 j' [: c# E4 {0 t- L$ |Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.5 Z9 C7 i/ @# 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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; B; C4 s& l8 q& v7 z; w) JFor 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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6 R4 M. O! @4 a# z$ ]; N2 H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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, e( Y$ e3 I2 t' M0 W% _; A1 CTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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3 V2 [1 k0 Y, ]) e& q$ l! e“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."9 X: Z/ S" c! y& S8 h9 b& |
) f6 [- U1 d2 o! ]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”。' A- r2 x( r d2 P4 z
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