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大学英语美文摘录：
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生命就是小甜饼：7 H& D* l& F* Z A
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.
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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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( T+ b7 p8 Z( @7 ?If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.! v# `% S- M4 D# h& {' t
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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。/ o ]* K& r" a& k+ O, R7 b! ] A- Y
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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.- R" d) L9 J; Q! R$ @& c; R
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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。0 r6 n! H: {6 d! 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.) D7 \, K: d, o' s0 P3 ^0 W
. k! p. ?) s6 ]3 @5 J* B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.$ F" R1 `( Q( r6 ` o7 \ B$ i
- i6 q; x' r& x6 ]. q* [4 @5 ^# t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。2 d8 g4 ?. I/ W
: f9 W, l4 Q' G) z# ^8 P, b E4 jBut 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.3 Z- G3 K Y( X* h; K( `! D. s
' \: h) X- V/ ]0 }. }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。 p, U# T; T/ U6 o2 B1 H
V7 f# k( p0 n I) N! K0 }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.$ `! M) ~* h# t* Z* M
2 p) x- u g" Y0 t x8 e' c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。( z* D) @# n8 j" 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.
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6 @/ F$ V) B* g1 R, c7 w( p# r. n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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' h1 p2 z0 }; g$ \1 ~" w7 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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( L/ w2 m# K1 ^" ]" |你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。( K% @; ]2 O9 Z* b& @4 G) j
9 h. j1 A* B$ p' \5 OHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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8 h9 A! B1 i2 b, I5 Z1 h( C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。" g% k7 H% t5 @4 h' [
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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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7 b j6 P4 I) Z3 \4 {! G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。3 K/ L! [3 f) y; f. q. o4 L8 D' {1 f* n
7 U8 a7 |# @$ F8 z9 g- eTwo 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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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."3 T- q0 Q8 F5 X0 D/ o ^. j$ X
# a* y2 L: u! v8 v, t3 ^0 U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”。# _# g9 f& a0 s6 C! h5 R/ E; t
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