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大学英语美文摘录：
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生命就是小甜饼：% O9 x! B/ s; E6 v; r
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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/ z# m7 f: N+ s" G; a% U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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6 Y! }2 r1 k" }# P0 y" \( M! K# f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。- N/ R7 U" i( m% n
5 s( i$ x' X, VSome 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.* A1 V9 \& u- z( ~* i" K5 ~
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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。
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; }9 w. v. p0 _# NA 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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+ R Z- f9 U. F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。( o, p9 M7 k' R* n* A. a
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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.: x1 g, u# J& s3 \2 {
; n7 {1 R; I7 x* R, r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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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." u' n1 t, r4 [8 ^7 h
, P: _5 r$ Z$ f* x6 j1 c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 I7 D' g2 m7 E
/ w) T, B+ b$ ~. _0 E# vThe 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.! ^# }1 ]8 t* z7 t
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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。) I `0 S/ ?& L2 e6 g
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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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9 u J4 y2 W. g* l% d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: K3 |) J
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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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: e6 s! j; A. A2 N( j- _Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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& U6 P5 `/ h( `1 V' C8 y$ H6 r/ K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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; F) f2 D; A& }( t7 DFor 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. "3 |* y* o/ T7 g' A
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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。3 Z* T9 B0 e6 E* d# D
+ u7 G& x) _& A0 B- G& j) r- Z. FTwo 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。/ k/ n3 e0 h p& u& V; C
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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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; Y3 N- r2 B1 I- X0 U/ ^, V7 W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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