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大学英语美文摘录：" [# s2 p' L- l, K: n$ y5 x
6 w5 q% F( D+ y! V生命就是小甜饼：
! L; @) Z; b& s( ~& @$ T8 vOne 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”。5 J0 F A2 I+ `( v
3 ^ R( k2 m ~# ?If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.8 A1 z( r# d% Z8 l( J
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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。8 S" m7 ~8 E7 h
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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.0 l) R$ U( c! W+ R9 p6 e, o
+ Z/ h! @* B3 k1 a6 L( W, V& J* r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。" }) P$ X/ l* s6 V% t6 p' ?: Z8 V
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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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When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.% Q8 o; }- ^9 @* S3 |+ ^* k, x
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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。, }. O% T; z: n- i
- ~2 z2 J4 K4 C* f7 q8 M9 s$ EBut 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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1 d5 R3 o& p8 J1 I$ R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。: C) A7 C' O3 F
7 Q- s& k- c, g+ [6 N* `$ VThe 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.! u% X1 r. G# t- K# D
8 Q3 c8 K0 A# N" o& Z' 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。 N/ T# E2 H |1 B
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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.9 a0 g U6 I! i. n) E
: x# I, r5 {3 |2 N( }你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。1 R6 X( @% o8 O" j3 q3 I7 @
2 H) c' l8 P. Q4 d: LHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.4 r6 j+ a0 `. s. i e3 ]1 O% d
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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。% j z( I* r# a# b
7 b6 s! x5 Q2 `) D8 jFor 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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5 }3 s, N9 W. L( \3 a [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。# r! W# ?8 ^$ k3 |
8 g1 u0 R" g7 C, ]' E* VTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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4 K& i! C* }( q3 B8 h0 `“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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9 {1 q: J! f" kLife. 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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, F4 S2 C3 P# G' {2 Z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”。6 }$ k5 a6 `. q( Q, i
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