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大学英语美文摘录：4 c& l/ `9 f# t9 T9 c' C' r2 b
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9 c( k2 f- E# g: s q* lOne 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.$ D2 _% K8 Y# P2 I) P
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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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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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$ G8 Z' u/ ?; X5 p) {# z$ s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。; b4 @- k/ A& R
4 d& R ]$ L3 e5 y& ^: ySome 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.
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y9 ^ y5 L) P* x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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, z1 H4 h' t4 j" hA 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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# N" J7 x7 h- L' S/ k) v1 TWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.7 D$ z8 l$ q8 ~+ J( Y- e/ Z
. v% S: X5 m' B- 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。/ |1 }7 i9 E% X* j0 E3 l6 @0 m
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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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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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4 U/ K9 v4 `/ y LThe 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., S4 Q( d$ i' y. [# l
- c& B7 j! t1 n+ Q+ \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。- o$ s9 g; I* [0 e, R
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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. 2 g4 G) v( D( u
; ~$ p5 f: f6 ]' Y4 H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。* p" B( }. f( n7 n# R
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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.4 K3 A0 i: V6 ?9 }* [& |* A: G
4 h; M( ~' @7 {! {你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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+ ~+ E/ t9 r2 p- w$ RHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.3 }( [2 W" ?: l$ |
% O" P: T' J6 Y" U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。& c/ J' Y: q- j Z
# a% y5 [2 d) N. \# |: f% |3 HFor 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. "/ ]0 s" \- m( f8 ~$ H
9 ]7 ?4 `* U+ `* P+ W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./ ^7 e& h+ L/ G
( n" j1 u+ @2 y: q1 J4 x# e“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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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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