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大学英语美文摘录：
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生命就是小甜饼：" y) ?0 X2 U% H
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”。; L8 C- T/ P4 e- Z4 y5 m
0 h* O! {+ X1 ^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。
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( {7 E1 S" `4 \' r+ CSome 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.1 \; M. |& l: @& m1 n
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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。) d( O& Z9 T" ~
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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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& K8 Q* \3 G }# H- P7 [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。( F$ j2 |2 |- q
1 J L9 [5 I" G; w2 S3 AWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.) r. d2 X1 v+ Q3 v @
4 C/ ]8 P3 V7 x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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! R0 y9 R' W0 e4 R# C LBut 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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3 J4 K7 D3 t/ l( n# O) z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。* F0 Z6 |6 I/ K( U+ f# h- W; x
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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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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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1 N3 U( j* j+ ?; f; e. d* dYou 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. 0 g( k& a8 T+ t) i" c
3 N4 n$ L8 @$ S; x3 F X- C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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3 r0 `4 m0 V+ l6 p" k( q/ }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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5 r, o6 k0 s: U你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。& N* u1 |' M0 |4 ~. V
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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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。. V/ n# b* |' G2 U; Q
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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. ". u8 ]. j8 Q+ q& n
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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。
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.- _8 A3 }( t% R& U+ ?) L6 w) z
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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。2 o* s- Z+ ]! E
3 ^) h+ @8 m( E/ E' h `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."& J3 M0 m; _4 p/ M( K; ^2 G% W8 E6 G
" y' W- _" H+ Y/ L" G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”。) h7 B$ T4 Y5 h& a& j" h0 s
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