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大学英语美文摘录：1 x8 e# Q7 j; M
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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.9 N8 c: c( v. y$ R- \6 ?
% e: d! d, ]% g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”。0 t i6 p6 D, Z. H1 n6 v. ^
4 V% | m# m. ^* {If 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。6 }4 ^ z8 {7 W, M. p
+ H. t) m4 u2 r+ FSome 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.) R- ]0 L" m3 @% c! L. w( ]' S' \- F! |! w
5 V" d; F' W1 j# H$ ~4 J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。7 b' A+ R5 B* |4 ?% S! z; |" x
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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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% g/ K0 A+ V4 |! P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。1 D# b0 T& X* m+ p: O; T/ l
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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.$ ?% S" d" a$ V. A2 p2 _
5 X6 q' ~1 d, K; m; U, e' U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 B5 |* z+ U( Z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。* y& r$ ^" k- z1 A; [1 {* R1 m
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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.) f- o/ D O3 z' ]% _
) v( C/ [- p& }7 i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。2 g8 B2 t3 w) ~7 @0 V
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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。
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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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% d- ^0 o1 }: J) F* nHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.6 f% C! l6 C N. G9 ^! d$ G
0 O7 S4 Z$ E P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。$ ?; D/ j- H- t0 Y! N
2 g% f7 m( D% w' b4 LFor 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. "/ m$ V; E, w0 f2 A* a
& N% U5 u; Q' V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.
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* u& F4 z ~1 Z( q) c“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."
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- d1 _7 e U0 S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”。 h2 f2 s+ Z& p3 a2 q0 B& r( Z
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