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大学英语美文摘录：8 D/ P. j8 R1 w) E* q1 l8 W, C
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生命就是小甜饼：
2 e( l, T1 N& U6 z9 r" }2 iOne 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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4 P8 a1 ?! B3 ~+ M n4 u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”。& V- t4 t* B9 h9 o, G
B' g" T B# C$ pIf 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。! b9 s' O4 ]6 U' ?
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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.0 k: }) f% l7 E7 c# o: }3 k
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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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9 x6 o. I, U# s9 [( O/ f1 `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.9 k9 T: C8 [2 Y a
1 R8 h+ c, } j: i) J2 x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。0 [7 F; j1 U* M" {. E; y
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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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- X( H* V; }, C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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+ k( W. k8 k* w7 F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.
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. w* B+ r% M$ J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。; D S& X# Q! i8 v
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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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3 o H7 S! a. \0 H, P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。9 w/ o! D5 D( m4 L; f% }( ~* U
- W7 w* ?/ Y4 mYou 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。
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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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- s8 a* |! g; x+ s6 y6 |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* k! L6 K, M5 ]
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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. ": B8 W9 [/ V' j% ^7 Z( J2 Q a
& O# d% N, p4 b5 i/ Z6 o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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$ s7 s$ j& d9 A' u7 K+ `Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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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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4 i+ t( U3 t! @$ t+ TLife. 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."- n8 T: |" @, V" D
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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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