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大学英语美文摘录：
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" P* V# L, n* n* O$ I; x0 G7 fOne 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 m: }7 ~0 P1 b, P- G" C
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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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If 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。- G( Y" \- q5 m2 U! u" a
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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.
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1 g7 }9 g! ]7 U0 _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。, Y$ b( H* S% Y# H5 D* e
2 b$ S/ I U: h9 T S# 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.
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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。* `' H8 f) T( N; _% k! U( ^& i
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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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) `9 w0 y3 i, \/ M p; ]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.3 l% [0 J4 J$ Y) U0 g
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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。3 [$ n' Q; \6 W# q$ L
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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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/ ^ F1 ^; J% e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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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. . q2 c$ F7 f" ~# ~& x( i
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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。. t7 L9 m+ {1 s0 B3 R! K, ~
; P" x6 p# q: W: Q) ~8 PYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.- K2 K% m( z( G6 M
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.2 F) Z4 m7 q( _7 _$ A+ V
8 y9 H. Z# q5 q# k& R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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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 }- i' l* S3 t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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[+ y& b3 }* D2 {4 }Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.$ n- k) \5 A4 [! k# M! W
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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。- X# P5 z- [- x8 X4 v
( Z1 u0 U% \4 L) w( W) @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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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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