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大学英语美文摘录：4 K; d6 a- ~ P% s/ T$ F `
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生命就是小甜饼：/ C( i0 @8 G4 Q$ 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.- r6 @! u5 e; I9 s g; Y2 W. @. g
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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”。& _4 J+ e1 m4 Y
7 m6 y7 O2 E, U6 Z7 C7 eIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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, k3 _- x2 G0 W5 U+ G5 T5 t7 F. h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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* e' \0 K, V3 Y* z* S& 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.' P+ S: C5 I& ^+ H" c! T+ c# T
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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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0 s3 f2 q2 ]) W% U% K VA 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。
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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.0 C7 w( _; F7 Y6 r0 u, N& C# K
1 c4 o, C9 T" @. @% X8 Y, C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。/ V. @) _- U& n8 n; t- q
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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.
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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.
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4 a% ~6 l7 r+ D+ a1 [% C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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. ?; i7 P/ y( O" S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。% |, `5 ~% D c* m4 l- W; \
3 ^# i3 ?' O5 x5 I$ h* M& s4 c: QYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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: l+ ~' ~/ c9 ]2 f/ z. k n0 m你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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1 E4 M9 e4 b3 M. w0 N9 v/ NHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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/ y9 n8 f m. o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。6 l: _, w/ d) Y4 @- `& }
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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. "( z. p- f0 a* v) _7 P9 j G( V* h+ @
+ m. o2 F3 k: V; x( ?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。* w% {+ L8 N( Z& A8 z5 K8 W
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.4 J+ m m6 S# m0 z4 P
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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。/ w9 d/ Y6 y6 g
5 n3 |0 B% |8 t2 E( JLife. 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."3 ]" e7 K) o2 o& ^6 z2 u5 E
6 E/ U+ n F" V7 A) K8 t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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