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大学英语美文摘录：8 K' R- `' m$ W6 [6 B6 D5 ?
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生命就是小甜饼：4 `/ v: Z6 j+ k9 s" ], ^
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.9 Q" r5 S* n& R
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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”。3 {; h1 W0 [7 t* T3 u9 l! @
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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n! b; h t7 k% x4 t* s% S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。7 W! g2 b$ d; t7 n/ k+ ]! |1 ~1 j
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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.+ F$ @2 j; o7 i% G6 W3 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。0 a4 h0 O5 X; Y3 T1 B
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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。8 C! @( B0 o& l6 L
( Z* V8 y/ ^8 S i, dWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.$ [/ A X: _9 m* t: `2 g
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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.) c. p+ }% S. I4 m4 n
, A; j- [$ ~/ m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。/ x5 a. L' C v( C
1 `& _0 L% e) E1 V- x' gThe 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.# j" b/ N1 B2 ~/ i
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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。
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; X' N( {' D OYou 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. ; o7 ?6 G/ Q0 C% J X
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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。0 v/ s6 B1 x0 K% s
3 |; s! K. T2 WYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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+ _& i8 c- I+ `& r6 I7 t你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。( Z- }5 _+ S7 d g8 b. B0 ?
% ]& K T% u, K: M- S. ~Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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# r; i; Y) c5 o6 A" F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。' s/ S4 r8 h3 a, [
7 n8 ^8 n9 E1 t O3 jFor 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. "3 _! ^- V6 G7 |" J& S
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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 M9 q. A4 F1 p
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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/ I( t' x5 ^( y1 i: L“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。: r% M- i0 v9 P4 \1 L. b! l
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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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3 w* j3 |9 n2 q/ K. Q- \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”。$ h& x- S' C& J' d% e
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