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大学英语美文摘录：1 e( L7 P3 B+ r/ ~/ Q3 J0 `
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: n8 N* I% T* w3 |6 W0 ROne 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.& O8 z" c4 ?- F# a" t: _2 P f
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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”。9 g6 Z2 ?% U/ `7 [9 ^
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.' T6 G/ E. f1 E" o6 ?. K
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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。# D m, ]0 S2 x8 R0 J v" j* b
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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.1 p" U- E* \& B
1 ]( [+ a! e" v% V4 e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。/ z, @# ^! V) F- E
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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.
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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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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。# X* t, F% H6 O
2 g. K% w! X6 r& c0 @" L4 u oBut 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., P" E% ~5 I6 g: R( g& H% u8 M1 ?
$ e& d* Y' J/ n" N% u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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( [2 \0 q, I9 S3 h' y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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% ], M: c- X8 B5 pYou 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. * P$ v# t% G- K) s. h
( e0 H. x( E* m* \; K" i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。+ A/ q. @+ `1 V; z
$ j) F. e6 C- Y3 O! H" fYou 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。! J* `9 j. A0 M! T8 A: F* M4 e
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.4 W( C/ Y a5 b& E! t9 T
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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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6 M( [# n6 G7 z# y4 y PFor 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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6 Q% R$ q! Q0 ~3 z! S9 J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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: n3 Z' X8 |. C g$ X9 A1 t' L/ S! OTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.. `, c. t% ]( A' Z" m! m
, M: |: _- B* J8 ^! H* 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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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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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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