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大学英语美文摘录：
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生命就是小甜饼：
; I. s0 ]* i2 x) c# tOne 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.6 L8 p9 g8 e2 B$ K
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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”。/ p0 F$ ?) j+ r' i- n7 y% C4 Z# [
) _* `3 L/ A4 }" i* |. }If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.. i- B2 P V+ r/ A6 b
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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。* ^4 H* J; u9 n. Z) M
. g8 M' M1 S' M9 ]) ]' ESome 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。7 x! `$ k( Y& D ?8 z
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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.+ c) t" @* Z0 L5 Q) a
, {% I1 y& T. W4 N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。: L8 {6 y% A4 x( D! b: l# f
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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.1 _+ C6 A( W/ R1 C8 T% ^
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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。8 L* m: N$ ^3 x) g; e+ m$ Z
9 ^3 c- m/ M* \! Q. ^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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! `- j8 a' X& u; @6 A) \. C# A# }, l# Q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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2 _ v( Z( A7 C2 g9 `" SThe 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 t6 h" r; G+ H* j) r$ H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。3 x' X% B5 |$ a) V
; Z( z% A5 r' v. dYou 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。; n) y6 F8 f9 U; M' N& y6 W
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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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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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) Y' R; {, J- q2 v* ]Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.4 M7 D8 X8 l6 Z3 n7 y2 d
5 z: {6 [& k% g# w! L1 z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。7 k! I$ W, A; |
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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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. F) d+ Q+ @2 A* p+ i; xTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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5 T+ K8 L% k( M' V# ]0 r“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。9 q# ^( ^& ?, D
" \- h1 ]. e" b+ V, o `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."5 v4 [. L n( H6 V
8 w g: m: Q: M3 J4 V% p; R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”。$ K" I, P% g8 Q
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