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大学英语美文摘录：1 o; o5 `+ k& ?
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6 t/ A- ?1 m) d& u8 zOne 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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F" g7 l+ @) [+ J. R: b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 w/ f8 H+ j7 b" _0 @. s
3 }8 ^, Z! S/ o: ^2 {' IIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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e( b8 I8 N3 P: T5 a$ ~3 L- c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。( |$ t6 d1 [. @, @' z
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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." i5 e; L# q( e: K
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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。& W' c& ~* R3 w$ 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.
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: F1 d4 u2 n1 \2 P* k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。& p( z- W# F) G; V+ g+ h4 ~& e
7 L! I4 E' ]- [' kWhen 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。; F$ K; B/ K& t+ f
* ^5 E& M/ C# R& IBut 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.5 f, x; x7 h% W3 k& W: B2 N5 z
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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。
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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.) s, ?2 ~6 M% |3 C" j8 k" a+ u6 g
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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. 5 J7 u* n B8 P( f5 K! @ p0 C% e2 h; \
/ k4 g% ^2 ]: L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。+ x8 H- r* I) _3 g
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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.5 x4 q) k! M x% n9 v6 A
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。" t0 q5 F6 o) f/ N( a8 v
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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, C% ?# }9 b% B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。" Q9 U( f3 O, E& W' r r
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For 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. "5 ?8 N3 ^8 G* Y* T9 b$ F( O! {
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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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- r: ]7 P/ P$ |& i0 bTwo 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。; Q9 S4 M; v# v4 R9 _" z
! T& l! U3 v* q1 jLife. 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”。* s2 H# L7 s+ `) a: S
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