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大学英语美文摘录：
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生命就是小甜饼：* }* b7 k" @3 D
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”。) q5 D: |7 Q4 r" E: P6 \& \
- Y8 e# \" {2 |# _' SIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.5 h: V4 d$ d# h4 ~( Z# j7 T
2 L( b3 N3 T" `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。3 g' P/ Z) }3 }1 A' N$ M& n
0 N! _' |! S" ?$ K6 N" NSome 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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: Q9 A/ ]. X' ^& U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。
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8 M! `9 V. p( C# ~5 r" ~, pA 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." L3 T4 I% D; @- {5 f O8 Y6 g
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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。' [4 g: {8 D( s" a$ n9 \+ U
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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. j' i% L" d! H7 y9 x/ C* N
# s& v* Z0 K0 g4 {5 ~* 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。
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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.
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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。
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+ ^0 Q. ^# Y8 [0 n6 Q. l* b5 vThe 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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3 n, i% t( d5 H- j1 _' r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。+ ]2 ~( Y% u0 x
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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.
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8 Z" w6 q+ _( F" g C3 b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。4 L! y- ?' s# `( [4 P
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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。. A! u# ?* U' B
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.# }5 U6 ~3 {4 a3 J
1 X0 C" J. c/ g3 k4 A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。) C8 t3 j/ i6 A9 n) g
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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. "2 r. L: b/ ~$ z$ \# x) I" O
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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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# M- g3 [ @7 {' Y; ETwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important./ U) r0 u7 W6 t4 F& T9 O4 z5 y
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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。
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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”。
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