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大学英语美文摘录：
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生命就是小甜饼：
7 i! q. U1 W/ I4 M/ ^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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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”。# m! p; {+ O* x4 G
- w9 C# E0 N1 Q3 R* XIf 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。* ]( o! V2 O) m; X, N" [, ?8 ?# k
) z( v9 w& s7 Y5 w5 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.
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5 I- e( C3 q+ t; r) @1 F7 k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 Y0 ^& X5 P3 @' _' b, [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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$ m$ C% }7 ?/ [6 \+ x7 w$ M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。, ~+ B9 g9 L7 w# X1 O
8 f. e, M: M- M/ s* bWhen 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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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。$ M: q; _. O, X* g
9 b% N; k3 j8 c2 kBut 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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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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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.
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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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$ m4 X! g. }1 u- R/ t& eYou 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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4 x0 V$ [2 R% b/ | O8 l PYou 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。" Z8 X4 G W( F E' M
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.( I# }* _1 ~+ s
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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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/ @& e, {2 X& O2 @. y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。0 r7 O% r& j0 @- i$ v7 Q. |
2 V- B5 _% l: m+ Z2 K: ?9 E& Y' JTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.: C. F- M/ r Q: V' E
) ]+ o0 E' _! 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。
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0 X. m( ^$ X% L9 H5 rLife. 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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( E& d& b, o3 p. w' V0 O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”。; L6 y: m3 T. {, E* l3 z5 `
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