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大学英语美文摘录：
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生命就是小甜饼：/ b) m% {! h! J" g5 j
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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; i* E9 p E, ^0 ^ B3 e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”。& g* g& O: f, p1 {: w" `9 d
" J$ D9 a) D8 |7 H5 m2 NIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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* F. ?/ A s; `4 q# D5 V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。& e; n7 V7 h7 E
; p f+ J/ O# R, u8 rSome 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.. }0 H a; r; b4 ~" x4 `
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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。 V/ z7 ^; x+ c7 f# y8 {4 R& E1 ^' Y
/ w R! n5 d, S8 U5 B) D/ YA 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.4 _/ k, s& X) r U" w
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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。
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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.
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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。% L+ _- K6 {) |9 g8 w' g8 R
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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." f% M+ X! |2 s) m" L( H
" u4 B" n/ x7 h+ c# A( V+ D- ]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.6 H0 [6 V3 t- r' ~) K# c- S: i" B
, N6 ?' R$ h+ k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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/ l t" _9 d2 u9 @6 sYou 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。' U+ i- N# j7 C, E& y* c
7 Z+ d; U! q: q) z! eYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it." _4 l: g& w" P5 G& m+ X+ v
* a. N, l8 B3 L. N, ]+ f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.& {0 U @' Q" [4 _( q/ }
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9 p- k" n; @! |! F- 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. "# r4 {/ X% ?$ D1 t* R8 _$ E# ]
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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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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important./ ?) [" V2 n' W& D/ r, G" I: O5 R& G/ b
) [, l5 o) H4 j5 x; m' a“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。. i8 {3 ?! z# ?3 M8 u. k; S- C. _
& f, E& h, \8 ULife. 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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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”。# ]( p% ]/ h* `7 d
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