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大学英语美文摘录：2 m5 F4 ^1 k4 W4 H& G" P5 n
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, S8 a6 e5 s: a3 k/ u# yOne 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# H0 z l& N h! p
; V+ p- Z6 ?, _1 v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”。* |0 V* ^' c4 u) |5 n' T) D3 |
3 A1 G l( r5 ~$ ?" h4 pIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.' S" u7 C' b ?1 L1 q
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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。/ \' w; C+ u# R
5 m7 V$ B# R" `# R9 MSome 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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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.* y6 ^; F, S% q0 S; n
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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。+ h9 \8 h" k% k T _: G) s2 ?( A
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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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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.. L/ e; J9 t9 R2 w6 H B4 W
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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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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.1 @% U I q) I: m
" Q# g" ?2 b" 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。
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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。1 L: ]6 `! N6 @6 Q9 e
1 W/ {* P* b% F3 l& e, p* c5 V8 `% HYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it./ j# O! a g& G. b7 V' c4 q' n+ U) ~
1 ], _) K6 o% z* w9 O& Q3 k你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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* B) F9 j d/ c' [- r F9 GHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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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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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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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." b5 }, w, G0 G. N) i# V C
8 j, b/ e. I6 a& R“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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. k7 k( [+ V) _+ r6 N5 |& }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."- A# k: y- _3 u' J. ?; @( b- J: Y, E
3 \$ {( f# F7 O; N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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