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大学英语美文摘录：6 @6 {" k% s' |" m1 D( t' H8 `
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生命就是小甜饼：; E3 C5 y8 U& |6 U! M! 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.: c. n6 |6 S9 G5 g: f& }" C( n
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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”。1 E- B7 i9 u+ ^& o
$ X7 G" r% [& b1 d$ D# g: fIf 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。8 ~! }: {& x1 K- x
1 v2 c: V% H! p# v" X1 DSome 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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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。+ \, L- O' l" e& [% Y3 w
6 M8 k9 m8 P, `! r, t9 WA 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。
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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。& r& a; c5 p B* J; C+ ]7 O* v
% e' B$ i/ z& t7 i) \) D* ~( r& tBut 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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6 {" r4 R' s1 i* T# A0 W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。
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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., x* J$ S" j: u* ~- H
6 O2 N7 Y6 D" g+ N6 A/ S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。# o3 H- C: A7 K' g
- k9 i/ o; S# J* |2 M; R# h9 D" RYou 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. , v% ^- V2 W+ x0 Y \! t
7 d* N H( }4 X& O5 t; c& g8 k5 F3 z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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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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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。0 C1 h1 m/ [; v6 e' D
& L% S' W* h! t- Z# r2 MHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.+ A# v6 x5 X: N) \
+ p, o/ N2 a: i7 `. 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。- r1 @* ]8 F, k
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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 o9 N6 c1 ]- B1 {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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3 Y, s# d; k# X( g! r9 l6 WTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.6 e* A3 U3 y2 `8 P
Z) U- @) p6 _( t" }! @# N* X1 e“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。! _) P* R! Z) f3 T) j! T& T P: ~" ]
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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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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”。2 l+ u$ q8 j4 n$ U
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