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大学英语美文摘录：
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生命就是小甜饼：
+ {2 C4 F$ D/ I) m9 M' M3 D! g) Z( NOne 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”。
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1 W m2 |+ @5 G8 v! G; S0 fIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing., [& D+ S9 D3 {: t& i# f+ s3 U- ^* n
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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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v1 ~/ w) L6 R( ]& t3 `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. E& Y% a4 ~( ^- H+ p" ]1 W9 e
( K+ O, I; T% w# Z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。 x1 u' N+ w3 d3 r
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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.: F4 X* P7 S4 [
) I( a. ~4 ^ b4 i x/ C/ ]# v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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6 S7 N- [- A u5 v. |- N/ b4 _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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4 r& w5 c. z9 D8 ]4 J3 w' @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.
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9 ^- j% h" E1 n$ 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。
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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. + q3 M k, O* o! A2 B
/ G( q4 d6 s; l6 b+ b) `. @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。7 O' S3 j+ D' Z& a" f5 l7 ? V
; D! i+ S2 t# G/ oYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.; |( p% ]5 {) T; L
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。3 S& J& G4 z4 L1 d/ q2 J" \- K
" k9 b& G- s, q$ c/ t: A# \Having 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。9 n; ^- k. Z' ]8 e
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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. "6 W* X" i% p( I m, s# r
0 x& x# ^$ p2 l* I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" F0 {3 @0 d6 D, c4 [6 w
/ G7 E* d9 L; W dTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important./ R6 |, ]( i" z0 s' I2 k7 F
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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。' N+ r( @9 c# A' t
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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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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”。$ k/ k$ F/ W% b) O0 O
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