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大学英语美文摘录：
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生命就是小甜饼：
: z% l c: h$ Q1 C+ dOne 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.3 O$ b/ d/ i' _
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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”。/ z7 Y# r3 z2 n- S, K! x
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.4 D9 x, N& @1 @# ]/ {
4 p, i* s6 r+ `$ A( x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。" Z3 M; ` J2 v: b' D( {1 V
1 w' C: v: U& Y' YSome 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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! f1 N$ l1 W, e; o9 a3 L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。4 g3 u1 X% K+ D5 [- p5 @# H
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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.3 o* n1 Y+ G3 p4 u9 O; Y1 v$ o" V
0 [& L8 a1 A) {9 E0 A9 _, K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。# e: i- |# k5 n8 V3 e/ C0 @5 H* B. n# S
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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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' t8 N+ Z$ _/ c$ f) Q2 j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。! l- }$ f$ G7 |0 {! g# b, M; G4 V. L
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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.
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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。4 V& M4 k8 v" |- ]+ g4 d
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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. - ?1 Z. l+ u! |. Z* y( Q4 B
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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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2 J4 n! [4 b T1 CYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.0 l* r: Q# T( [% H- e( y- u9 R# N
. I% r; e* _: O s! ^% g你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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8 l6 k3 [/ B. J1 PHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.0 ]$ |7 D8 H" d
( u5 K% X. r4 K. w/ b% Y9 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。9 O* j3 Q* O/ j
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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. "3 ^3 J) `! [" y% l" P& K
* \8 b! Z( A# L5 r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。5 ~; c2 d8 N! E3 ]
" a% t1 M" A8 T! aTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.1 v) n" v) T+ W# 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。
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8 v# A+ l6 _$ Q: {$ 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."" h2 u' ]# \/ e. z R u
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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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