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大学英语美文摘录：7 } Y4 i8 e' e5 B2 i: v1 r$ r# u: P
$ ]5 @# d0 {$ T% ?生命就是小甜饼：0 N- O0 C: H& M2 U! b: J
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 L' ~# _+ G! x% p" O
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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”。
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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* m a2 A! J( I0 n6 L9 U6 S3 P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。( U, c6 t1 b* F" d5 p1 |6 Z) Y2 W N
' F) L! c6 y7 R# H. e8 JSome 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.' L$ w# i y6 x* r
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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。( E! n z+ y( D/ I' l
+ f. C4 e. [$ u4 E( yA 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. p0 `. \/ c# l- |. w9 P; k9 \
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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。1 ~! C6 s: ~5 A, P( F* v" k' {
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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.6 ~! X4 B% ?) X8 I/ g0 p5 Z
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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。( _6 m: v9 R3 {; L1 T6 j
; r Q: i$ W1 [7 qBut 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.; m7 g9 E( p G7 c; Z
* u$ W: [+ I# d1 F, E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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6 W1 A3 h% g/ f3 N; w. _2 x' mThe 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.$ N& i, T( s7 `8 w: Z1 K
& m* }. b( e4 |: r( d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。
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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.
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- d/ [, X. h1 R3 }0 |你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.$ ?- N- V" r6 c. @2 S/ i
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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。! h9 S5 L s6 p! ~1 @; l8 Y; J
# ^% k# E5 t4 [4 pFor 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. "8 c0 d7 B% }- n) d1 B' r% r
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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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2 s+ q& |1 \: u* _* m9 _+ G# OTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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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。* h: `7 c' o; c2 a2 w! O- _
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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.". y/ P) e; O0 Z6 T/ o! K! J8 X, O
! X8 i. b4 s' N3 [# g3 C3 l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”。& ]% W8 l7 `' [! C0 X! t
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