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大学英语美文摘录：
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生命就是小甜饼：" x2 Y, f0 j( e
One 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./ v0 L5 P1 a" J' [" B
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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”。1 @& t7 h7 Z( q( m7 F' |- z
- }" m; d8 A5 m. TIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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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。4 _7 s# {7 n: x6 W9 l8 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.
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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。
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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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5 ^. I$ B# J# Y, m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。* n& ?" w# O1 ~, w
2 ^6 ^, t1 W& pWhen 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。5 d" C# r. I& U0 w. o* x
+ s( n% ~! h: ~1 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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# F$ t2 [+ ]" m/ g6 V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。) q6 O2 C7 o0 H1 C/ {: M! W8 ?0 V
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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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. D6 k# Z- Z: }; }' L: V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.
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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.8 k* X" v9 r% L7 e+ |- G0 y( o
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。4 X9 I/ i( u* m% ^0 l8 T! [
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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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! B# u, G3 v5 j' ^% @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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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. "
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# A" \* H+ C9 f7 y# k) g9 [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。& g% d+ Z. f% I. P" F4 E
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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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) J9 P% A' E" Q$ k/ s“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。! |0 W& Z3 [" X3 ~8 z9 C
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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."% V5 S9 k B4 I/ i* q) B9 Z
3 b* I& I- O& p6 e$ H6 v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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