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大学英语美文摘录：
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生命就是小甜饼：
1 ]8 h) a8 k* d8 J6 P3 eOne 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.7 _3 y6 B, k, G3 f) N
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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”。
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/ A# ?( P& j$ K- ]+ S CIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.8 q8 }* I0 I$ E8 {+ `5 t: u
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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。% h4 S4 c9 ~4 j5 e f7 e
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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 o' @+ i$ R @
( s& s( K) e3 S8 S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。- c( V( |# o/ W) T
4 q" d0 O! V& UA 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.$ n. v6 g- z5 `& C+ D; ]% 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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( `4 V$ h! E% A4 X lWhen 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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- H& ~: i* _4 k" k5 @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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) p+ q5 e0 s- X5 `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.) J' d$ A9 `! \% {) A
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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。$ ~6 i! |6 t) A& x! j. ?
4 d1 {- T) M) w9 n2 [2 h$ NThe 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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9 B$ D$ @- z# }+ d9 P- N# n4 k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. 3 D7 c P" C& j( _/ H
- K3 e# D# K. q9 G9 a: L: m- z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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C6 w% I1 |" t" Q; 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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. N( Z! h1 ?0 Q; _6 i4 b ]你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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Having 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。2 s; b2 i5 F9 s$ n
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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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' h1 g6 t4 D1 B% T p7 l! LTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.( `" ^) C) C7 L9 X% f4 E+ P
; h% K% o9 v/ ]2 o- i, r“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。3 u$ Q+ e2 s; D+ u W4 _% c% ~, N
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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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# {' p# T. D. U1 T1 ]2 n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”。* c A/ g9 w9 Q6 h$ `: @2 Z5 ?
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