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大学英语美文摘录：
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生命就是小甜饼：
( w7 F- J( M2 ]+ E# sOne 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./ I) ~0 u( P6 J. v4 N8 H: c
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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”。( G0 t8 S% u9 L+ f# d9 @
7 `( n7 w6 j0 v: kIf 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。) Z( X9 z# q1 J. j' `+ _. ?
/ e" S2 Y- u; D' }3 E' b5 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.
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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。. a; S1 x: e: I/ a: {! A: R8 n
2 B4 l1 _. M% o j+ H- ?/ d) w- q4 LA 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. ~3 H) _- \4 ~; j
S5 s; z% e) ]) s$ m6 v( h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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- |4 `3 q" s' dWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.' w. V. @4 U1 b# j* e
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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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9 d/ O5 u% C8 I- {7 DBut 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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9 {! a) p9 A" X$ }6 _( B* P8 }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.9 j \* E, z/ e4 O# @: F' d: O
2 R0 \ ]$ @9 W! m9 `: A: `/ L* c0 i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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9 M5 e( u: i% @) bYou 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。% y. z! Q, l3 d, e- K
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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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. M1 U3 v* g/ Y; m, b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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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. "' N5 H* u& O7 }8 e2 @- D4 l
7 R$ |5 V$ L% y" a/ u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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4 {; `: z. l0 C! aTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.$ ~: h4 c' d4 W& i. Y# |( D
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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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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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$ j) t/ P& [1 v1 y- c: ?" k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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