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大学英语美文摘录：1 x2 J: ?& \4 x) h& N$ o4 E! D1 D
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生命就是小甜饼：
q# E7 J* C1 }% ^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”。* P0 g' y1 V6 I* n3 w) x; \
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.! p; `& Y2 |' \; K
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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.5 O. X( G4 O: {- h' @
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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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0 U( J) y0 \0 h( ^) T4 X7 o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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# V3 h" o3 W: V( l; q, nWhen 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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, s0 Z& M8 T5 b; t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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& H& Y/ U7 a% S/ n! [& A) DBut 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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' E" |3 H* {) d2 ]; a7 C6 z6 [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。& R& l- Y8 x8 `0 E0 w3 c' z
+ ], i9 X& B: w8 R- | u4 P8 BThe 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。2 a/ i& ]2 e1 r) u
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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. % A" e& p& B2 C1 p: t! v
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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。9 p( h0 b! \7 M' K4 c, Z
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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.0 Q3 p6 \9 o2 k/ Z( |5 T
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 L+ A8 u) K' n( o
" b3 K( m4 |6 M: j8 o: I; n& `Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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* u- v: X' T7 V6 S9 f9 \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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3 u; y: I8 J6 O6 a3 \. n( p6 _0 _* GFor 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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4 x, `" Y6 E0 O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。
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6 Z3 C3 U) K: E7 f6 G1 uTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.* D( ]5 B- x+ T3 z& H% G7 s
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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。, I4 ]- w9 N( g4 `1 |# l/ R- f& ~
9 ~/ A# ]8 u$ c6 ^. e9 Q8 b9 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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