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大学英语美文摘录：
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9 O: V/ ~/ `7 U! y+ T* a生命就是小甜饼：
, v O5 v9 B' t/ y/ t2 vOne 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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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.' ]+ F4 `+ H" z' d; q: i
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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.: }6 Y2 l8 T$ ` c
$ N. L1 N8 C6 P+ c9 J: Z I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。5 M2 B" {7 O+ G7 U. d9 x
8 Z( [' h4 o% t& L& |& y7 V6 W2 nA 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。* `; Y5 s9 S! ?2 X% d
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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.) p* j' V8 ` ]. t# A# `
5 `* r! N" I1 f8 F3 g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。* Y% S i! O0 M: m7 @ M
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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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a2 L) b8 s y! n* Y/ }1 l+ ?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。$ I) A5 p* n h
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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./ W0 F- D" f) ^" _7 v# W& D( Z: R) z
8 g$ x% D% O8 _- K2 T7 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。
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/ T7 _# q [' r! k x" SYou 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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" _0 h9 l/ U! {# Z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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4 [# a/ j/ a4 s7 L+ uYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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4 `9 n6 x% Y! Q! J1 x7 R" u* l你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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G, f& u5 o; GHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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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。. a: U7 D* R( G
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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. "; a u5 { C7 L3 _. |8 U
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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。 J+ M9 `3 w9 s2 h5 r
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.. C7 ~" K! m9 o" a
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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。% r& p }- l0 \4 `5 n! E! k B
. B' ~; u# f5 r2 h( `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."
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2 S( b6 c- @9 P* f G& K0 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”。 b) u; Y" a- p% M; R4 G' [
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