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大学英语美文摘录：
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生命就是小甜饼：" l* c/ m- B/ E: |% f* N
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.3 @8 ?5 ^; W) w6 \: [: H
- Q0 H; L* t7 z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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8 a% G- y0 Q9 I! F. M5 iIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.. v& i! B$ A. e- d [$ N7 s
* P: T' J5 {! v# f. u9 A W+ v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。
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3 H1 Q. h7 _5 |; y) d1 g6 ISome 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.# a; Z$ {; K8 f3 @7 k6 O+ b/ z4 Z6 X) r
9 A& j( y( k% `1 N6 t3 T4 v5 F f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。: n) g9 J! r" E3 w
/ P( ]) [3 q3 J1 t4 E2 QA 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.; L {% @1 ] G
$ D/ i0 \ Q) ?0 R" X0 p$ E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.3 y5 ^" r2 T$ j
% u$ X9 E [3 C" g7 r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。# m2 R1 Q+ F/ N
9 F" a& N8 {9 @: D! @6 i: I# 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., {* `$ Z% ~1 v2 v$ s
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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。/ @; i) n, @: a: K3 W
; B5 y5 O- X- i# KThe 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。( ?, q0 m2 j2 ^# R7 z
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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. 9 d3 g7 j! n2 w1 X" }4 [. a
8 G# I e/ G, u" @6 m' |/ G a- f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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! R% Z- b' X! \You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.! O3 f7 \! ^" b- t- P, |! v
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。' k5 F2 [ d5 Q4 T
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him./ g. W8 m7 ]7 I Q! \- Y3 C
) g# F' @6 R8 L# H# |; W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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' L3 @/ y( m& zFor 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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& j$ `+ A; u6 O+ x% \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。0 T+ O" K$ b& n# E% {( X
5 I) }$ p7 d5 uTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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# q. T! K$ }1 \5 O. o" F# \. C“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。0 s) z$ l5 J$ m. P- T, S8 S8 ~
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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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+ y- N+ t. k2 T0 y: O" r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”。" R& ~( a; s5 p2 S
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