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大学英语美文摘录：
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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.
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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 w- t& z- [! j( u
" @2 U y% `! R; _6 D2 tIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.4 D/ w V8 u3 E
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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。, g' e' c" a4 T- O6 `( F0 Z9 a
) ?+ s) A2 B: X1 cSome 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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3 h6 H& M) I+ a N4 ?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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) x8 d5 U7 {4 G/ p% t( m3 k$ `" U I @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.1 r# p& ~' y' w; B
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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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2 Y" j n# {: y( K8 W: f: `) F/ 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。
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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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% F1 `1 ]/ d2 {. 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。" k1 Y, K1 B; 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.' r: A. Z$ |8 s
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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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% J. S1 [& @/ b, Z/ yYou 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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6 b& O& g) I: z; P% W5 F# 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。; E, m1 s( {- ?9 G8 y
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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.
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" ^9 ?+ H/ E! G5 L$ U/ B你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。7 i- C/ n# v8 s0 x2 I: M8 r
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.4 b3 U$ [) R+ G5 o6 A, E
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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。
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! [- S* }2 k. N0 oFor 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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$ B. K' r! `2 C1 ?" [- @/ u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。# o( z, K; B! `: l9 ^- x
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.* U/ U3 u6 h* I+ w4 C* B
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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。
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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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]" W+ Z) J( E9 Q" C0 b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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