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大学英语美文摘录：
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生命就是小甜饼：
9 b* z- D" Q% D# f& c4 |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”。
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0 L2 n1 e6 S9 O/ s: z4 lIf 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 F2 M. Z9 L, o+ 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.
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1 `- u! t2 p2 a9 P% B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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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.2 S& n+ B6 T: e2 M" z" @
( ]) }( e" g9 ?3 A. b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。
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8 l. ^- r4 p+ O' N; }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 m$ j+ w/ k8 d3 u9 ?! f# `
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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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) i! B2 U* V) |/ P3 q1 W4 o% Q3 G; JThe 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." D/ a1 D4 i5 R' \. w0 \
. @) H7 v2 M c3 ^: 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。& \8 T9 w' s7 o2 n3 }1 u$ A0 C9 Z
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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. 5 ?; S# g8 E5 P+ {. z+ J
; F- e" v# |8 F. w/ r, X; k) I' 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。0 G$ z+ w- E9 K* X) F4 h- e+ o G. @, F) l
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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.$ b* p5 G! w! o* |( v% G9 t
+ D; `( f3 o1 X# u3 O# ]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.- d' F3 w* |4 g2 @6 }; E6 C
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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。
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6 z/ l6 S- N. p pFor 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 d& o: v$ J4 ` b
) ?' D e L8 L8 E- X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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) {; P: h1 ~: h+ g5 q0 j. f# }. eTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.3 D" C8 s3 ]) I4 i
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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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, g6 I O4 T* |" j$ ULife. 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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4 i" b& j. e& O( [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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