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大学英语美文摘录：
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* S7 W: N- w2 _8 ?+ hOne 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.
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) ]5 l; Q5 s. b4 v& ?0 P6 v) {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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3 F/ ~& j5 P1 g* A& ]7 a3 a; Q# lIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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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。# U! Q% G) s( G% Z4 j- H5 O
9 @# c& q2 f; Z: F$ Y; }7 mSome 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." g _0 u1 i6 W8 ~1 Y* t1 B
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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 O4 k8 t1 ?! G
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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.# ?% @2 N: i/ s9 V; Z
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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。+ Q9 H6 S4 c# w: ]
6 k% k2 b6 g3 t+ }- M0 gWhen 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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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。5 z" q2 G: D5 I
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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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6 E; D8 C* r/ M6 i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。# p' h0 a/ e+ `' g4 h
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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. / ]* Z4 b% \7 a
8 e; g* E/ Y6 b9 ]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。, I4 b& p5 O. A5 z& [5 h4 Z5 o
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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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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。. H# w. g% f- b
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.# a1 c) D, G2 Z' J
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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。+ F4 q* {3 ^* o
) L( K; f" d- j h4 |) f7 _; nFor 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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% {# y) \( m" I+ x! ?; 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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7 E& C& q! ~; z) m/ u1 G# MTwo 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。- e( m! E6 Q7 A0 j+ d* o/ Z& v! p
) F3 D: U/ _ b; n$ E+ _4 [ fLife. 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."; k- @" z2 F6 S
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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”。0 r0 }! b. _" l4 ?( z% E2 e
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