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大学英语美文摘录：6 e/ k5 i- d# p/ C0 H* F, X
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生命就是小甜饼：
- \- v5 t% F+ ?: V$ |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.7 ?: Y4 B( M3 X1 t1 u
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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”。! U& n0 h1 K$ i, e* w
9 v7 X4 J5 Q/ a1 r% AIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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3 O* o8 V7 e1 ~) Y/ p) K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" @3 r& ~" _; Z: w9 t! N) b
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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.; B: |) r, n5 Q# j8 b1 J. F
j; d5 ?' p& U' V- A& y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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$ ~ S! }+ { sA 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.0 T1 A0 N( f9 Q1 o4 F
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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.0 A4 b V3 D" }$ v- E$ W
5 }4 i0 e. ]6 E% e6 s# g x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。, [- v, q' F" y2 q: K
2 v# u7 t$ ]: i! e' ^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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8 T9 r# s9 X a) _2 Q5 j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。, n4 E9 B# H$ f
: h" @( @% ~/ h7 {7 M7 @' O* WThe 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.; [0 n0 ~9 C) N
& W. ~. t% F2 c/ f9 M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。1 @* q' m3 c- P0 b% |9 M! @
$ s$ [7 i8 ^- L) \9 {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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( F4 J0 b. j ~" ]5 Q+ @& G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。0 Z% E, M4 f1 a: N$ j: U9 _: D$ Y, h. T
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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.; r. E7 s0 ?6 Y' Z" s% z# F/ \
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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.
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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。4 X9 C) B2 J* Z; D
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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. "
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& c3 U! E6 a( N/ w- a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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# n/ H- P: [6 I3 PTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.* ?: I9 d$ z* z" _/ U
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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."
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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”。' r! s( B) L6 u% v1 Y+ m
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