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大学英语美文摘录：
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生命就是小甜饼：
( X% c# U7 v1 G2 F7 gOne 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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* o" _% n9 R" T9 i$ G# H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”。) c. U3 { o/ Y) T- ?1 l" Y
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.+ o1 }( H. D- p, F0 {1 }+ H @
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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.6 ]5 n# V, w: @! Y: r; H
! n; ?" ]( g4 [, U3 T/ [# w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。5 c' G7 G4 {" z0 e, |8 E
% q9 O9 N4 k* M4 D6 |/ aA 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.: s; t: ]/ e& H: G" c4 A/ w8 f
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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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- d8 x: T. w9 z- p' a9 [3 F- sWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.+ O' j/ X! F' E. F# a
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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。% I8 f, I9 ?* B; u, \
; U+ d) I/ A' J. U/ }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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. R) S3 [1 T3 Z( n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。4 S) F" ?; ]9 }7 _, w+ M7 X( B
" c7 a* C+ r8 N6 }8 a7 q& EThe 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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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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" [. ~* B" ?; c- a6 }# q7 d, F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。
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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.7 K5 `- J! U- F9 U ~
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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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7 j" e7 K, ~* ~4 `8 M2 ZHaving 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. "4 D; j9 J8 \' z- `
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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。1 X8 j M/ Z) g1 R. N1 k$ \
: i8 ?* F6 a' m( Y) u# ]- a1 yTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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: i* }& s6 k4 F1 _“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。6 \+ ?# f: L+ ^& k4 U5 s2 e g
5 m/ t! s6 {5 h# P9 C6 G$ ]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."# I2 V; P' d h$ p; c9 u- H
$ G% V: p( C( l+ r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”。$ r$ q6 n" J0 D* e8 r
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