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大学英语美文摘录：% k g* z4 V ]4 ^9 H O( N1 i8 J
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生命就是小甜饼：' W' s/ W9 P' c9 M0 Z2 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.
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/ a5 E: I. }% N7 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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3 c+ q7 J, n& j, rIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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1 O, M$ f- C7 G: ~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。* x" w" i& a& N, k
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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.5 t) [. P( F K' v. U; m: z
+ x9 K" \/ N$ ^% D9 b2 F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。- F( }& E+ U3 z0 n) r
% L& j% ^: _. ~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.9 X8 o& W$ ?4 I
% q, ?5 P6 X; U* Z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。( p% X1 x+ I2 v% x
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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.1 M. W: {/ ~& n/ ~/ B8 @% N6 D5 l
8 L% j' R+ P/ t0 G' j9 w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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2 @3 a5 w8 J% ^, {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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# o E$ d' f- a+ ~0 f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。8 P; s* @+ q, ]5 O. j
! @! N1 C9 J# V$ p S* g9 gThe 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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/ f6 ~) a7 E$ q5 j$ {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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0 s' }8 D/ |: u' A1 eYou 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. " V! [6 h1 X6 j; u% \6 X
) G* p8 M7 N+ V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。# z# J/ U3 Q- ~
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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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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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: \2 |2 I2 [3 g6 s9 }Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. u* T, \# g$ y" p% G% d! b
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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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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. "9 h3 G, P# ^% T( |( H$ v
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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。7 v3 N) e9 W( ?5 B# O* X
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. d7 W! r6 S \: G
: T, t+ V3 |7 a“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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1 o9 m+ X9 ^) {5 g2 dLife. 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.", o# ?# ?3 h A4 E" g
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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”。* P% \4 J$ }3 k4 p
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