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大学英语美文摘录：
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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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s0 y3 C7 V, q" |# u" _4 c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”。1 F% ]. G. L, k. D" P5 M
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.6 i6 n0 K! w0 w$ ?
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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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0 j K' R& X) U4 Z" hSome 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./ m8 j. X6 o" s7 S
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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。" U. ]0 j+ q) @0 S" V3 @
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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。
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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.. |: l/ |* f' g2 y: x6 V% v
3 ^8 E* g; Q' o# b5 S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。& p1 `1 W7 @5 m q+ d
3 H4 \4 \8 p: O$ Z& ~+ p2 jBut 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.8 x! G5 A# f; @: A* J
# S) m9 S4 U6 @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。8 k! j* y( e& T# W3 J
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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., f; V( }' {6 h
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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。5 l, ~$ a {2 z' S
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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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1 ]# v9 p& @ A8 S- u* M7 J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; [ a$ B7 O4 ^. w2 U, @, b
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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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# T" ~: x8 L& N4 @- A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.+ A9 g# R7 ~3 H* k
# t. E3 E% W3 b; A( b2 w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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, c7 h# `& _' s( X) zFor 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。! _ f. q7 ^7 l, ]$ y; \
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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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) n$ K# A; R C9 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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