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大学英语美文摘录：
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: u2 v6 Z4 `. }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.' v: B3 e; S' I9 f0 a
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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.7 X5 k S4 j; e0 r, M; J$ S# G
1 k6 x' ?+ Y8 w4 a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。( l, l4 m5 I! f; k3 w4 U6 d
0 I6 T0 t! z+ X) ]1 K! ISome 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。
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- x- w7 _ ~" rA 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.1 u0 B; `0 \: m
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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。
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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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1 Y# k+ x# b+ v$ z4 T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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& K: n) R+ q+ y6 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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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。9 y5 n1 x* ]$ Y. A. g x
0 q' ^3 _& t, `5 a MThe 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.& }# Q; i) d9 _- z1 x7 n% s
/ T. w# W! X& b* X/ E8 f1 J" u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。5 H) q* [$ T5 e G- j6 N
. k8 c1 U. ]2 R& VYou 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. , n5 t7 S2 K- V% V
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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。 B4 y/ L: L/ x1 @
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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., D' s- L+ a9 J. k
5 o! y1 B, E. n" U- L% d你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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; C# _" t4 ?4 X) r5 _Having 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。
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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. "& p4 G0 q+ M; M- y
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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。
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2 n. C+ Y- ]3 U; M( `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。9 q- V: l' V: X
1 P4 H. U+ b( i- u4 s* U9 r' OLife. 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."; n+ q K M1 {% Q. x
' g2 h; T+ e& e6 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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