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大学英语美文摘录：$ A/ y# k1 g9 _/ h/ m) p
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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.& d+ S) H" u2 y
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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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4 u; |3 v' t* `4 ~+ A9 O% {If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.; ~0 P( K6 z" Q. D8 q
! h- V$ f9 _! V, W5 s! L/ R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。6 E, j+ b# k" u3 }
. `! D: I+ j [5 \2 zSome 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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1 o( s; n1 ?% J' D1 @' N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。: @# H9 h1 V; X
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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。
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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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" t! ?5 @7 x0 V9 d u F B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。. x: Q1 U. Z1 W0 ?9 N1 H, N, T1 Y
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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.% p% }4 \7 \* c! O1 C
; M* P3 p) M, Q0 b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。- T8 t4 O: r" O0 j- t, I4 J
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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. . E. o. C9 q( k- n5 }
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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。
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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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* h3 I" G. w( v你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。3 z. T( m/ w5 X! d( x$ g( B4 C
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.5 u$ @) |1 D0 I6 E% S
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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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c; [" G) e% ^) r/ \7 WFor 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. "$ Q5 L" v0 D6 c
4 W; x8 K) {" u% t* }4 k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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* {5 d, r. y- Y7 GTwo 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。
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m9 _0 W" r+ K* KLife. 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."2 j2 X: l* R* a4 g8 h( d3 g4 a" \
7 g1 O4 C4 `; Q# H" F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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