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大学英语美文摘录：
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生命就是小甜饼：' @( ^/ c; k& K7 o
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”。
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" F5 [5 f2 d( M' n+ NIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.+ ]4 Z1 o, @# M) h. R
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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。9 E/ E5 d+ v) x, B) v
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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., Q3 Q; O3 f1 D! y' ~- \6 t4 U7 r) ~
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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。2 K$ V, N3 U l3 X
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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.: H0 N( R$ u2 a# ]- t
$ ^+ ? G! e2 ^7 E4 _/ y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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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。" P, i6 `0 ~7 K, u* e1 Y/ ], G1 k
! u1 m' Y# Q) u) T Z* K! ?( `' p0 aBut 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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: \0 \9 H; _+ S& c; Q: O4 G& qThe 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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; t6 N1 ]4 g C/ l. u( q3 |3 R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。/ d( L! D( U) O) {
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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. 7 B# y& o! N2 w* f) S4 K
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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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! F5 t% L- o9 P# d) @8 [' |' i& jYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.! r3 ^$ p+ y& d2 G' {; \, W, f3 ?
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。: I6 |# U, y7 C7 j
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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, G/ ^( ?9 K1 F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. "4 ^7 c* W" K. }! _$ h1 q
K9 v+ l8 L: w: `/ U; `6 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。8 F, h3 L' j: r/ \
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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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。. G* \& R/ x7 p' g" E: R3 k$ n
3 }3 r5 j: f' z/ L0 S; T. vLife. 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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: c' [& ]$ Q& R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 T& `3 R" q: ] }2 O
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