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大学英语美文摘录：
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生命就是小甜饼：
% y$ M0 `+ i# ~- V4 D. j* }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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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.' n" M% [: p9 @" R& }! x3 b
5 u5 ?% m1 p/ e* f4 U" n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。; T! \' A% i4 l/ d+ D/ l. s6 ?
% I3 f7 C4 a& w! j2 PSome 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。
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4 d9 l; M# _- V; Q; lA 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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5 K- z7 W! ?3 M. u& l: K' z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。0 ^. W, m- ?1 W" `
+ @: a3 y$ ]) g! Q6 xBut 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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' x2 {) W/ U0 ~ {% h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。7 P# ~" T: ~; Y' c: T' S
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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.. N7 }3 _/ v8 F/ N+ Z
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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。) M$ { z m9 z8 n1 l s/ t
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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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2 z9 ^6 p7 U5 r8 H4 s$ 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。+ D8 T( _! C% ?4 Z2 H$ U( q0 L5 Y
/ t& k% k( V7 fYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.* O, a5 I3 U1 C
; U! B( Y& L7 s8 I' U4 }/ T' k你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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2 N, v7 m" R9 n0 ]+ s" SHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.7 @. U; V/ t8 X$ G6 T& i' d) D
7 R) s V5 g+ \, J2 g* X5 y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. "5 t9 g3 g7 a& W+ L8 S
9 L5 n( v1 \# ^, a! G n" W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。: S' z1 M" K! V
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.8 g0 L# K% C$ |5 Q" G) p, n& X
: o/ ?- q% d" Q6 |- T+ ^“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 D/ F9 a& y8 r% T7 K9 ?
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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."& k' s$ T5 L3 ]+ j" a0 h* c# n
9 }1 |) U# T$ I$ ^# q# k4 [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”。" F0 g$ |( N+ A
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