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大学英语美文摘录：0 Q T! F# G0 r' z4 \3 E- f3 E
8 b# j" Z- }7 t3 x生命就是小甜饼：7 ]) I0 @$ }- B9 ~+ p3 i+ ~
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.* V1 y1 H: I3 A% h5 E
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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”。* @) X% L R3 O9 {2 o2 b. U( n
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing." G/ f* o9 i8 w, |8 P1 y. X; `
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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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1 m/ j5 i9 C; z3 W: A# KSome 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./ N5 ^- {; _2 W9 E. x) E
( a6 R$ c3 R3 V9 q( S3 p: W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。. Y; \2 k6 D9 i c; |4 e/ z6 w
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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.6 s" t; H) H4 L/ V2 G
) u# f: t T1 b( U4 B d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。7 x! m+ A& j! O0 t
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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.; Z" u) ~* }. u
8 e; t1 h) b1 [0 t& T0 X4 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。0 l' ]8 h* T. f* V. J
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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 m: [* `& g/ r+ ?; ]% s# [% z# o
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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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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.
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6 ?: [9 `3 M! @; D' p) |9 q; G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.
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. q" W1 d3 U: P4 r4 o5 J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。" x0 Y- g# { Y2 Q7 V# k
$ V4 A( ^1 }9 T% |. JYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. P8 r4 L' q7 x9 E
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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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, c3 B# S& }+ q& Y8 r" d" ^7 _9 [) R+ VHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.6 l$ r4 h( n0 \6 z5 E
; K+ Q1 w9 Y' B) y; T/ a) |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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0 }* B' h7 E6 j1 SFor 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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# J; r( k" @2 }' ~( j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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$ K% h- A( |; C& I- 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。0 t3 i8 [$ d# m5 I; C
+ k7 Z9 \4 o# }, x$ d! P& R! R' v' @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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, j- k4 @: c7 L# N% |0 P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”。 y E3 T* I- Y* r# X; F Q
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