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大学英语美文摘录：
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生命就是小甜饼：: i0 x) M" D( H4 B2 c' E! }' v, X
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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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( g& A+ y: q' K. q+ x* T
# g1 y# d' e- g9 m* HIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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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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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.3 H3 L+ k W! p# K* l/ y: u6 j9 N& N
3 ^9 e4 B/ D7 L" ]$ A9 P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.
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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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# u8 R9 C9 [! N- `When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.9 n4 y8 d# T" [9 H1 x7 H# X! i Q0 v
1 B! @1 ~# z. e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- v5 T, w% ^' ?/ U8 o
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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。% O+ T& t, u6 j
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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.
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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。: l% ~5 j( w0 u7 b# O/ K" V4 A" Z
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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. # l& }$ J7 K% w* C' A9 O
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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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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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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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1 p2 J5 [- ^2 S: dHaving 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。! B( n1 v) V7 w2 g* e
2 d& _5 f* M3 B0 qFor 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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0 W3 H7 |0 a. S/ H% A, s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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% R& R, p# ]1 aTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.( N1 ?7 ]! ^, b5 p
9 H6 h5 e! 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。/ b9 ?2 c4 M1 I8 z" O0 c
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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."2 q* i9 T, z/ } F
' g; `: v* K- F* j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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