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大学英语美文摘录：3 m4 m$ `6 u3 `+ @4 j, s* A
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生命就是小甜饼：; {8 T6 |6 T- f6 d+ g
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.0 \: L8 X2 q/ L7 K
3 L" p9 g& X5 u' k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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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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6 g0 Z$ r6 |: }3 [3 ^! HSome 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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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) g, }. ]# 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.+ p" L2 I$ C4 e; Q7 I0 v" r9 ^) ^2 f: n
& c5 `+ q& ?( ?# U/ w& ^ \( T7 O0 r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.) X" ^( q5 {1 N. I8 c
, ~4 s( ~8 @" S! F# X3 v3 f, b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。; ~4 ?, E$ w$ [+ N0 s+ h
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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.& C1 D1 T6 o2 n8 z2 {
! Q, H! b0 t9 A6 V. O* X; Q* J O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。% w3 a0 D1 _1 a( o
" N( Y# W: X( G: R0 |" XThe 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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3 b* r2 M. W4 { K. g7 ZYou 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. * N, g! e: R Y' v7 w2 \- i
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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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You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. h2 M; O S3 t1 y: o* ~
) _1 |, y e- ] n你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.' ~. j* ^, C' ?2 z( R/ m! 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。/ O' `- `; L. n4 b) D! W) ~" Q
* p, w0 Z5 w! A) k. u# y; ]2 NFor 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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6 {& A! j0 I/ B0 u" k6 h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。$ Y6 _7 P+ V& ^
$ {7 e5 G. a' r8 X; K1 xTwo 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。, N4 ~0 d9 B' `4 e5 R
2 H* R N4 v6 f/ NLife. 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."9 z8 Z: k) t, }0 A. S
$ I7 ?5 ~0 g. k6 c0 C& J% 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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