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大学英语美文摘录：9 M" x1 w- q+ C
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1 Z: T4 A) E4 [2 l& OOne 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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9 U1 Z% G* T Q9 I4 c, U; N# Q8 j1 S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”。
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5 w* o4 P$ M+ I9 n8 ?) ZIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.& ]3 c# c+ u/ D" q- k$ [* w; L
, G7 H; A6 n4 t0 Z0 b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。& X8 I q' E4 b
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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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# C4 @: ~' J+ `# x& E! x, }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。- Q) g3 ~# y8 N1 c- ]2 a3 C
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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。
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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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" V$ R5 g2 O; _' H( i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 V1 H! x; F8 s( N9 s
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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。, M0 H4 V4 D" {6 B: z, R0 ?
+ g. [4 b' v4 ~2 x6 V9 yThe 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.( V) p1 ^' y& M* P/ V* y8 G* N; F$ g
( K% }7 J1 |) S" q5 K! ^ ~) d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。% W" i& `$ X7 E5 {; @. t+ [- X" G
8 r& ^, f7 y" DYou 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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$ K! F' V+ {3 ?8 L5 o) V* r0 \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 n! _! r& O+ Y$ w
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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.
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8 U$ @( F" L; i& b$ [) B你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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0 P4 a& k8 r! a6 k2 s& IHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.! u+ g' r! {* I$ Q9 k
" i: B' y; o J. M. p0 L- `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。4 L( C( H& ?; \% x
) t. e* R! W& u: P% M9 r2 ~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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# B5 G9 i+ ^: ~. C" A( L8 m1 |5 i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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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.& Z4 }) R, u6 p. e) N
3 Z2 V( u% b& X4 V, P& g. c. g2 `+ U4 u“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。% d1 l* T* T* q: Y) \7 A1 r2 `
& P K! {! t6 {1 G% o% g9 fLife. 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”。2 W( T/ V+ \& J, @( d# ~
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