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大学英语美文摘录：
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0 V7 @; M( q% N$ v2 r9 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.7 N: D* p+ J4 v; A9 K
* ~- n' a3 L8 K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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! ^$ Q' P& _: ]! R; l. zIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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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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- m5 r {. }0 w& ^3 o* sSome 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., i$ F* R' b: r$ Y; k j; s
- ^" f. _3 S9 C- |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。3 f6 i* T: u5 Q/ X* o4 W5 g
( P8 p% K& @8 v4 E! _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.( I, E) X- G/ T+ c: A
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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.
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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。
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# y' Z& O( g. Y# f8 A4 A0 Q5 X kBut 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。2 \ p$ l/ h/ o
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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.; z& L# a X$ u% M0 [, x- z
) U6 L/ o8 p; n8 v" e/ W! B# v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。* l! r$ \0 c7 p1 {9 l, b# r
. i; Q6 Z, V; k( O3 v. I! TYou 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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: A4 J& o; {% V+ r$ i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。) Y/ X( r3 M8 F) m) l; y
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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.* F0 C5 Y8 D# ]6 j) {
0 A2 N7 S- r$ j* U( w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.
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) U: `4 {& a; |8 g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. "
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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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Two 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。
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) o: R* q2 E. k* \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."
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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”。+ b9 a5 e( a* h# h. o
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