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大学英语美文摘录：6 `$ y7 f9 R4 l" W4 ]: P/ h6 k$ A
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生命就是小甜饼：. ~# u. s: B5 c: {( \
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.6 E" a7 V6 r; W6 x7 ?) U
3 k0 k& b: K) V; {4 w/ [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”。: v0 ^ e- x$ k. q. i7 b0 }& J
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing./ E& }" q& G4 O
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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。
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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.$ f; y$ U- r/ B. Y! ^
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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。) a c$ _, k- ~7 ~( {! z, |2 N9 o
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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./ t# @+ v/ g7 X& ^+ }' |- Q
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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。8 ~0 l d2 r1 m
1 B7 ~1 I& _/ a+ ]1 e: W2 kWhen 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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+ i' z: O! i% c* o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。, M5 T+ q4 u* x+ O0 v0 d' E5 ^: o n
: r' W) _" k8 _) B, Q' 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.. V3 a: {, }4 c3 W
" u* u: x. m. O& O3 N/ d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.; _3 m2 O" l. g- Q) n4 s ~" p. {
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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。
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/ u4 X8 l6 Q1 {2 S/ r3 T$ BYou 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. 4 U/ A; o) `) U0 ]* \
. c& r$ a' A$ A, Y7 q! E# U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- @4 j% T0 q- i/ E0 o
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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。+ o2 ^" p' [% {
0 J5 g% e r4 T1 ZHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.0 E) o- K8 _1 k3 L
8 d) H8 T; b- A5 `+ H8 B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。; x% S7 }- s+ W
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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. "1 _$ }: h: `9 l+ T1 W4 D' S& S
* f+ H) [4 t) i. z+ Z* C2 ^7 _' [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。! e$ {& z7 Y$ H1 x
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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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9 } W% T" v! \; H1 a, f1 l4 H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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