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大学英语美文摘录：- r* V( j3 U% ?( X+ e# I% o
" x/ u. k7 O6 [生命就是小甜饼：; X6 N, Y, c0 w# Q
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.2 Y2 o' e. W# `! S: s0 {
% h& ~) l; c& v- 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”。2 E& w9 e8 o6 j- o0 j
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.) D' s1 ]& a$ P3 c& |3 v u
+ d8 B+ w7 l; J# Z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。8 B, x6 W7 R8 }
: ~( a* x" t0 p! d+ a3 H" P6 i0 kSome 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.' M8 r, M# t, Q# i/ l2 d
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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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$ p% `+ Z# c. n7 [! I' j* ~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 \; k, g) i9 D
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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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6 |8 O4 o. L1 {" u i8 {1 gWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.. L/ {# v$ H* d7 b4 a, I
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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。! T4 B$ i8 B) z* b0 b+ ]
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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.' F, Y9 G1 l& h/ A/ L
/ n' L( Q* h1 j+ l3 }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。% Y8 G6 x( M1 I( U7 G4 i
3 m1 S9 h* u, y7 R( L( M- p1 V' ~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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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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0 J- R6 q/ |7 G9 H# I" RYou 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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( a2 u. `9 R6 J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。- h6 D [1 g( H- Q3 L0 M
0 U5 A7 m- o- v( s6 X! b: m: yYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.1 K6 z# S* [9 X$ {; a
# o7 D$ O# n+ x7 Y9 t你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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. B+ r+ L7 r T4 L+ bHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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7 p9 q8 m* u6 ?5 j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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& [& V7 J3 V/ P5 xFor 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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* b# L; l1 @% {8 ]# Y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。# B0 M2 u, r9 M: l1 M* {9 A2 U
3 z3 T( s2 X+ \5 BTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.2 J% w! U/ J5 j
' n' m6 ^! b9 I- u“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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* I2 T: _" {4 S. OLife. 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."1 t9 I S8 Z) v
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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”。% _% m: d+ _; u
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