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大学英语美文摘录：
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生命就是小甜饼：
/ p8 Q) J# O1 X6 t7 [1 |$ jOne 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.: }% l1 K2 G y- N' K6 B
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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”。" D7 R/ o: }- h9 q. p+ {, w4 H
: O% ^7 e* g/ Z& F% E( @# I) F: cIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.8 {$ f% f0 V9 D$ n+ [
1 w2 ^+ _. |2 s0 K) ]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。1 d1 w! s4 I8 f; Y
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Some 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。
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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。; {1 ^& u" S9 J C
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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./ N: E* P9 t' F
7 b, W" Z( V8 l4 p& x7 S: f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! x) K* [6 A8 Y; g# r7 i9 f
# f$ i/ M( U1 [, A& vBut 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.$ p1 E; b! |2 u/ U
4 M" o8 c$ C6 B1 n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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4 W. W9 R+ @( G, q r% cThe 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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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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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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- _8 `0 k* J$ ~& x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。0 A, D$ ~ k! o6 z0 o
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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.# s1 B8 p3 g# q6 J$ k$ l
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。8 j4 w& \: l. M* s) n
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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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7 c* B/ e# X8 p: c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 N! Q- u- h! d& y1 h+ G
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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。, |+ {1 G6 X. [, W0 R
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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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2 U+ a( A3 w# n1 z1 o3 j5 c1 `, {, H“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。1 P8 ~$ u3 r$ O( l
5 b. d; f% Q8 \# j: m8 QLife. 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”。
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