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大学英语美文摘录：
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生命就是小甜饼：8 U* Z3 g6 t$ g) u0 l" h
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.) e/ y- M; o5 x) j
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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”。5 n% {5 T# k% D) ?3 { C' X0 u
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.! ~- z. P, ?, A# @3 G
9 K" H9 z9 T$ w0 l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。, ?7 y* A+ P; c% a- d$ p& J. w
+ Y3 U; I6 R+ G% N0 aSome 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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) I- y3 U; P5 gA 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.7 L1 E) @/ w4 v0 Z4 s8 [$ Q
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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。) j. s/ l7 }6 b& R2 ?# Y/ S$ L v
* v) j3 d! O2 C2 s t6 Z# mWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy., u8 ]+ c/ S5 I" b, Y
+ t" U2 Z' A' H% `+ L; L/ l& F. P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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/ Y7 f! `- l1 }$ o8 ABut 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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8 y+ p$ C, m" s- r% u) w$ }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.4 z1 |" J* z# Z2 [: c% h- G! x" P
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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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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。: t9 y' H0 M/ F8 v
0 L. ]- S6 D& i2 e# nYou 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。- U8 ~. E |; m& t& j, a& D
. ^0 B8 l( v; D9 L$ b% Q$ {, t2 p$ o$ KHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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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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. S2 T2 j% J) [6 {' H" Y3 E' jFor 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 g$ T4 D. `/ y+ @, `& F
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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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7 Q# r; k( m$ D- @3 L6 y5 PTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.( K" h! E# E4 J6 G
' w3 f# e& I" H- R. j“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。9 U7 H( o4 j. O/ W# h& i
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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."* V) V6 I9 A' S( C8 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”。 B/ g$ C% G# _; ]
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