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大学英语美文摘录：
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生命就是小甜饼：, [/ i; L4 w9 \) Y
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.
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1 v& M* x3 @4 l7 @& t, L8 G4 M9 P. r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”。2 p8 E w* O5 X) q, K+ @ J
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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。: Z! C6 E7 R% m8 s+ r
% K/ I5 {; F0 S+ s: v" m: 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。
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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. }) @9 M- |% p& A; v+ N' U0 x
8 s& S' m" d6 V. o' W( W# ?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。, f F ]5 _# E- t) k
/ X6 [ y5 h* `4 i' x# s9 KWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.) T+ s( N1 ~, X
1 t' N2 }; H" a! X7 m* ]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 R' ~( i% t# M1 e9 p
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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.. d* y: j5 y8 E
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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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2 m5 [( w0 v3 ~1 y! B4 u6 QThe 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.* U1 H9 n7 a1 [5 f( K9 i/ U3 }
7 k$ U+ _( U; ~- J; L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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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. {( H Q7 l# ]7 K: M" E8 N
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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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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him." L1 ]- X" F, O) L
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, y2 q; p9 `- I# t3 Y/ Y2 X5 QFor 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. ", c, `! P. J8 h* d
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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。 c3 D- W7 L0 s8 Q% W( c
" o, s/ h q# Z5 x, } J7 XTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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$ D3 ^* R: p- R3 g# k) F“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."
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4 J5 j8 e& I4 U# E8 V1 X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”。" Q- Z8 \! c! v7 x
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