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大学英语美文摘录：' I7 t7 O! [! U8 L, y- x
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' S1 K( b I& J. [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.! h) }6 G5 @* v4 U3 y8 N0 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”。+ E" D* y' d r3 U0 x
/ s/ H" E9 A. P6 W: w9 lIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.2 ^5 G. x( C2 x! f/ I4 |
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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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# [% O- `+ L- r, h1 _; m, J$ eSome 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.7 y: Y2 E) W8 w$ h% z( ^' M$ v
; A2 I$ y; S& M/ @8 B# T' N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。5 y) p' ~+ g% |$ q c
3 F& Z' S) p; w; `; L/ sA 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.8 Q4 y6 R! M V3 c1 `3 B2 a7 Q7 {$ v
" l) j7 k; s" ^, K4 ]: E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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When 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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) J2 _! f' C3 c [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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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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7 \8 Z5 K& y$ ]* G2 R: h0 yThe 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。/ j& R( @1 Q* e7 n6 L
9 N* b) ]; O- N& E' i, @5 e; bYou 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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( e; c0 }' A3 ^You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.# L9 j6 \; ?% _- F5 [
8 c1 V! m) ^( i8 ~你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。# o3 o: \4 O/ T6 a; y) ?% h
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.- k4 p: E' i9 w0 o7 t- J
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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。5 G' j% F, G; ^1 l8 i/ Y
# c! }5 z% e( T# k( IFor 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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J2 Y+ Z9 |$ 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。
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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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v# H, S1 l7 ]/ P* ~! x“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。- u* k- D1 ^, o
! d* Q+ w, H9 J: B+ m! mLife. 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." C% z; F* ^ e0 Y a
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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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