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大学英语美文摘录：1 ?5 Z: C; f! j' X; r O2 N t" a' F
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/ X$ E8 m4 p* L7 g2 Z" J- ^2 g0 YOne 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”。7 |+ a& @( o l/ @% h% F
) |/ D! w/ d" W" [/ V" n6 z3 _+ jIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.- @) A R7 ~4 e" V+ [! ~ _2 X3 O
" |* [" o% S! A) O1 p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.
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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。! J% X4 u7 X0 C
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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.6 C) H' i4 \ B3 k5 X; y
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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。, H& i7 y# d- c% a* |
. @/ s4 o* z8 o% x* @When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.; r& n' e/ n7 }; X5 |$ g, e
) S# T& _' C! R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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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.: @ {* n6 V! ^
0 B* C$ G$ {/ ], f- d! ~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。! d, R+ Y2 w+ U- o; ?, R
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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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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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. D- x ~6 l9 @/ sYou 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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6 m* j/ x8 R0 i/ P- DYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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) T7 I. d7 T* p# {2 q你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。$ L8 N# f7 t+ ?" d
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.! G. L7 b, j. {; X; E+ {% g: b* ?' W$ k
9 j1 i2 t" x+ ]* C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。
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7 L% n( k' p4 t" S5 K8 u& Y. Z7 }. PFor 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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" L, M. s' q9 U; @, C! f. c* X+ e, o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.
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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。- d. m+ S9 y9 I4 P
% X( r R- ?$ L) U# x: ALife. 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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1 T/ S u4 `, h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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