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大学英语美文摘录：2 y3 _8 ]' o I
3 f3 h' X' s6 v1 [生命就是小甜饼：7 k) s, ]" b2 l. c+ B- h$ S
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.# z) P+ _1 u) }
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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”。( r9 E. Q- X D4 E% O
/ Y2 y# E- r4 E6 x7 C) yIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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5 \4 O9 m- V# a: e$ z* o1 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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8 j5 a# h/ O% r* h1 U) wSome 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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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.6 T# j2 A4 u* V$ \" g
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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。; _! o2 \& G y! [, w) H
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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.: b8 ~6 p. J* y4 S4 `: z
( H: Y' K* t3 f2 D# N; A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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9 _; v+ z# s# }: T( m& e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。7 q6 ^3 m, H# ]4 D- m1 h
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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., E6 p1 \$ E# e6 V* ^
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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.
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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。* O6 f( q( O% p7 p2 v. w
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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.4 S' V. a1 [. D" h
& V# _: z |. `) h6 S- {你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。9 O7 X' U i" D4 ]
, O4 Y8 e' [- V3 d% |( x! l1 f' CHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.$ ^! |% ^; P( ]; X
4 N6 r2 J% b4 ]7 s% L7 V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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+ G0 q! v Z0 ]' r3 wFor 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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& |( C; V9 c" l0 w4 y y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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) p4 O |, o# x+ P0 M( k jTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.: D. m/ t' Q8 ]% b( n$ \! 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。1 m8 _: S5 b2 c0 }& X
8 G$ {; c) K5 I P ~; ~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."0 H& f3 ?2 x# h# a
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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”。+ E2 a4 A2 y1 R& o) S: Y* w
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