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大学英语美文摘录：8 k" U# z: P1 I
, S6 _* D8 f$ C1 P生命就是小甜饼：) m$ O4 k3 M" s3 C3 c! e
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.8 s0 _) H/ J; J* _# W
& }3 J& r1 p& V7 ?# h, ?7 q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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- ]. G' R1 A% p! S; f9 k% iIf 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。8 I; @0 y8 Z; f0 |" ? Z; h6 l
5 n; ]% D! B! B$ X# o, Y$ kA 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。( C# Q6 G4 @+ M3 [0 u
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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.
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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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1 M$ ~& }2 @" P6 uBut 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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9 ~4 p' ^5 x3 ]( H$ E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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9 X% v; {2 a" N" r: u8 t: g/ ?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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5 J8 K3 h/ A& u" X- \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. - S7 v1 `; m' l7 g/ j: h7 q
. v' i( W+ y6 H3 a: ^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。 \' Y7 w6 _! u0 k8 J6 n1 H3 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.8 Q/ Y, a3 x5 s$ A3 x
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。" A+ f. m6 e: w, f3 J5 \4 w; I
8 k; G) L8 } w0 ~, X; T$ @Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. c- F% O& ^ R/ _ U
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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。
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6 P7 E4 Y6 p! \3 q2 K, jFor 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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& Q. e- @4 I- Y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。" R( u: T. x; u' O
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Two 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。
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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."( F R- c* O! }$ X
t$ d* w5 w4 _% e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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