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大学英语美文摘录：+ l8 H* e0 }& ]* E
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生命就是小甜饼：
! u) r7 T: f/ {8 c, L6 J k" @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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S8 G- s4 C! X% \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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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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9 R' t1 h. I; f% Z' Z0 k; [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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J8 }( I/ h+ Y; l: iSome 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.1 m" e( h, ^# |8 l9 K' 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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9 z+ K/ o& {9 r6 SA 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.$ s& g. o0 F) y5 P$ h; c
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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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9 S. T( A) J& M4 @# E( M- R( 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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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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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.2 H8 {/ }1 E* _8 Z! G
$ A/ L6 m6 Q. S) O Y% c3 [- y2 W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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. q, `0 O% q/ B* K# w- {0 x$ p CThe 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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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. : Z8 f( ^8 ?$ |1 d2 W; U! 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。: y% z+ e7 |. o% i! E
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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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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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* ~# G! r$ j$ lHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.+ o- d; v# w. _( t& b0 u- `! c' |
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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。1 Y( w& L" c2 u7 m7 ~. R! J
4 g: H: Q& |' [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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' _, n3 ?6 ^; f1 F! }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。. M' u7 \4 C d
8 r, _% t; ^& G2 V. c- v% lTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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- h7 g+ ?. }' t, Z( d0 K( ?4 m$ E“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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Life. 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."1 W1 S) j8 o. d: |
" ^ {( g1 V/ U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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