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大学英语美文摘录：
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生命就是小甜饼：- f+ u" D5 ~1 l: O9 w
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.1 z, c1 C( |3 Q4 n5 R/ O2 Z$ h
! g' `6 M# k# q0 H6 D$ _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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: T O; r, {: rIf 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。
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, T# o# c" a- N& W2 p e0 x- ?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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0 T6 u1 h7 h1 o. m% [* N3 S0 ]' V8 k- H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。/ y' |( N/ O3 n3 s$ T Q
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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.: T1 q( u3 a* @. t* F
, h; z1 X* k+ q# W* j" M* V$ B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。8 ?1 N$ A4 d$ n) {6 W9 ]) I8 q% Y$ q8 ?
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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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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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. q3 ?3 d" V# X( P4 ~( o* Y# `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./ n) U) [( Q, f8 a X
$ s7 F1 z) [9 V V( _2 W/ R* {% ~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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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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& R$ g4 v: P. X$ N7 V* z: 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. 6 o5 v2 ~! U; E- L
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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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1 M7 D4 b, `' F# d9 K% l$ ?8 PYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.+ ~' i, l5 e4 }: h' {/ o' }* y# n
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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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。3 S8 I2 d/ y F3 j+ u) ]% r
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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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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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8 L, ^7 l0 N# _3 X# t2 h1 G9 V: BTwo 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。1 H% x; S" ?! h, b+ f# P, e
! n3 j: K% d) V3 KLife. 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."+ V- f3 G: O+ T8 w9 ]5 C) N0 ?$ O
l% d: u ]- R8 H' A; I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”。6 \; s1 p0 q* G8 _! G9 q
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