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大学英语美文摘录：
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' ]1 T9 i2 T9 C! \生命就是小甜饼：3 q* Z. L3 ]: T) m
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.
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0 D( V% M6 j- u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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1 r" Y) M6 L1 A- ]( I. eIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.' _8 q9 S' p" h7 W1 V
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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。9 E0 c7 d w! Q5 v Z
) E w/ b. p* u2 T4 b5 N# S9 Y; q% 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.7 Z' a" v. s0 {* h! q
! O: E( O& P( D9 j2 h3 u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。, P2 o C3 A; a7 t T
4 ~. T0 b5 q0 ^- ]9 C( H* @! ?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.
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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。: j0 P0 c# ?8 A; N
9 [ Y" S( J: U$ }/ f! m5 x7 h dWhen 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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9 P( D+ k8 h3 W8 d1 f# u/ Q: ?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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( O8 @1 q- r- w2 D% y2 @' Y0 x6 b, |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.4 ?5 Q3 ^2 c$ e
) M- j+ l/ D% l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.& O: \/ g" A$ W$ ]7 u( A) X% v
: N( t) A! l0 |* \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. ' ?: Z2 l8 k/ }$ {. }
, m/ i$ }' A+ j6 r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。. P5 m- ]; n! D" G, B3 }4 F5 \
. J. y, B, s+ Q7 U) l' I6 FYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.4 C- K( W" h% z, n# k
+ j- f$ L. k V, z2 ~8 X你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。$ r# k9 |6 n- K3 k! {& U" N% f# o
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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/ f: c2 j- d, k9 U7 u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。: O3 c9 g0 B2 Q; _6 J0 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. "
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* T6 G0 F ~$ ^8 E7 P9 h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。: e7 k6 f% J/ n) Q2 F" B- X
6 C/ L8 d" s0 XTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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' h, c" \! Y( b4 {* c! ~$ @$ V) z“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。7 N; E) t! J4 C$ r. N
6 a& w2 f9 \6 X; [2 L3 R8 d8 nLife. 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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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”。; R7 e0 _2 {, v5 {( Z
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