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大学英语美文摘录：1 }& y, r9 r+ b2 B' i/ U
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生命就是小甜饼：+ M+ S+ @" {; s% @# d& v- O. P. K
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.* _% y: [( I Q3 M# R% ^
/ _8 P7 ?% q( R0 r- `6 A4 L b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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3 T' ^% e9 y% gIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.$ z; A2 u1 l$ G) f8 T% m) R7 P
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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。# ~7 i. e& s& t2 G4 r
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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., E/ c, ^7 o$ L# T, F! ~
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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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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 I7 Z: h& p* w" j9 S
5 }& _, W6 o$ S" s* D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。$ z/ W! o: A2 J, l* V# [ d0 b
6 @1 V. c* m7 X, OWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.2 X" Y) h) H+ Y& ]
) T( }) W% g& V/ Q( b4 J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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- |0 v8 s' W5 t1 v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.' v) j1 J- X/ ~2 y& U
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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。3 s+ b0 q0 P$ F& s7 ]
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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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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。) B! P, ^0 ]* y
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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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* Q% o; K" Y% c4 F8 t4 p你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。) f5 i, B6 A8 u9 E
$ i2 n3 f/ r2 I+ f. D1 _Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.( t' @) ]/ W# K7 ]( z. i' v4 }
) C4 H" u9 U/ ]3 i$ _. _8 o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。7 l/ [8 j# i4 q3 C
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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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2 V. q6 a4 _6 J0 Y( G4 O( d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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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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$ x! K# V6 t# ]$ p) [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."4 ?5 w/ G ?) J& m5 s
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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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