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大学英语美文摘录：1 t" _" G0 f6 m- O
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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.. E9 o- b, B. C3 [2 }9 n
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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”。) U4 w' U2 `& u& u
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.: y n$ i- ]# F; U& j
8 }. }( f2 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。
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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.$ k9 i+ C7 d' G9 w
8 H; ~/ k; o6 \- s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。: T8 M. M3 d) { Q( V! u5 E% J' W0 S' a+ U
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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.2 L) R, I0 i& \# j
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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。9 l. S6 D- U7 p8 j- ^0 @3 B
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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.- O0 o+ _: b8 G$ L+ L) ^" |
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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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' m# l; z7 [5 ^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.3 R3 ^: X( X0 E6 M6 {% P; v
, d' C9 b* Z6 L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。. Z+ w: j7 T* E! T M, I! g9 N6 I
4 ^5 W+ O9 D# N% XThe 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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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. " R* `% h l( b7 \% i! Y
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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。1 M1 o) S. k' P) W; [+ \
' S, s% ~0 Z+ s% @You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.0 x$ B7 _8 v& X& t5 ^& ~2 p7 g E
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。6 M, {& s( m9 Q% i+ ?
5 z7 w( C9 u" ~* y% Z: Z% Q7 sHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.0 V4 ~0 `& M, m8 L' E3 ^
, Y) r7 K" Q# ^, j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。+ H3 V# o0 b+ _. D2 i
& u( w4 |% E$ c$ z/ E% c/ {# w1 NFor 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. "8 K+ a5 I1 j) C! T) i& X# O2 Q
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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。# R6 E! y' r t, O
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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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“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。+ Z- v, Z, f! e# n6 ~
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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."$ B: \3 T! k* T
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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”。
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