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大学英语美文摘录：
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生命就是小甜饼：5 y2 u' ?5 R0 c7 q `6 }0 n
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.4 u3 Q0 p3 `1 N
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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”。3 c1 s- Y' k) |' B) t7 ]/ o
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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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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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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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4 F6 A6 d; q, p2 Q. K: pA 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.
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* t7 G$ g) E% a3 N' C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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. z4 w9 @& X4 b/ X# z, S9 r- LBut 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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" ^8 a% G" s& ^ 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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' T% H; f: d3 Z0 M0 g& w9 W$ z4 zThe 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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; L* y3 O7 r6 Z9 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。
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" Z& X" H/ @0 ]$ pYou 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。
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* \- Q6 V- [" ~% G( X: V; \You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.8 Y$ \7 c# t! c0 d& I
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。8 z( M/ z c/ W" g$ _4 O4 R
# p h/ S- E* o) g+ AHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.$ q+ D2 F' x A7 L \# r, I
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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. "
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c) g& z" [3 L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。 F/ G/ } G' B" b- f# Z7 I
. X7 @) d+ _! [; y" O! t1 X ^7 ~Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.2 P6 i" K+ _0 \7 h3 Y# |/ b
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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。$ m2 V9 X: T2 O
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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.") F% J) k: J0 W9 e* \5 T1 N0 i( _
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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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