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大学英语美文摘录：
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生命就是小甜饼：4 ^1 L: ^0 ?( l9 u) T: v
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.& U9 Y: a+ k0 k& G0 c+ C
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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”。& i+ S, ~4 F( Q/ q* o' K
+ f$ @; q8 i5 f- t; ~If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.4 a, o( I/ Z, |$ q1 o* E
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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。$ ~8 T: D4 |* f8 t
) x/ s- _1 E+ {0 FSome 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.4 @. {4 ?' _- R9 X9 ?9 Y5 h
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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。7 v1 R) }+ i: m# P
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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.* w1 v) U( V: r9 E; s4 h
" _' P3 ]$ z3 M( Z, y9 H9 R+ m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.) r: z/ e+ p2 g4 e$ B0 \$ f
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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。5 B7 i7 L, l8 g9 u. ?
$ ?' N; n0 h i( J$ I1 K* N% T3 xBut 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.' G- D. M+ j7 i! \. Y% n
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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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9 z2 v" u* b) t' Y8 B9 E6 a: AThe 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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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. / S1 x4 o" g* g! }' i- c
- j+ ^* e# ? B, \; p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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You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.# ^% ?; J u6 b' N9 p3 E& L) Z
% e( y2 t2 R! N3 k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.4 `8 P$ ^% g; u/ P& ?5 X& v5 C
" _" b3 C5 s$ i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。- {1 T' |' U# o& w5 u
! S- W; _0 u* l' u( uFor 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. "4 @' K0 K6 W2 p) ~" q, G% x
- z9 Y2 v% f: W7 r# E* |+ |* f m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 z2 _7 j* r3 W; B' l
- ^, l7 T7 R3 {Two 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 `: X& L# C; P/ 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."" r6 I/ I1 d. U% S0 I$ f
/ a* k' I1 [4 O' c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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