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大学英语美文摘录：
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生命就是小甜饼：
9 D7 H% U7 W- B, fOne 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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$ Q9 E, d) j ^; tIf 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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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.
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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, d* ~# ] e+ @. y
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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.; x) Q0 P, ^7 R. m5 B! M. l) H. V
& p$ \1 h" g* U8 e9 m( m/ f9 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。2 i4 ?- p, t: Z; L
, s" D0 i: J+ _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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C# }9 |( \/ F3 t; H/ ^, o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。6 P* z2 K% {6 W* m. O
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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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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。: O9 }( B0 I7 s9 |, x* ]
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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.; s3 ~6 j1 p- r: y+ g8 a/ \( d
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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. ( s' P; p6 g* X8 |. [
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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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5 H4 g# B; s, B7 ^4 rYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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5 Y/ G2 p+ t2 _% a4 U, _# y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., A' _# W: @3 M* B
$ k# j. I+ N; t% b- r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。2 e1 V1 @! O+ ~8 L' z p8 `' _
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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. "+ _( [6 b0 e0 D% H$ R1 e
7 J5 J* R0 p3 v1 i9 V5 X$ Q3 r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 y t4 S; c1 M- m
2 K8 F, d$ }! n( d' RTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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& W7 o8 N9 f( R& ]8 Z" i“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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, B$ }% |! }, u+ _8 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."
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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”。- W3 ~) T: E: X
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