An expensive gift can make her feel that a man is trying to buy her affections and sees her as a prize rather than a person.

贵重的礼品使她们感到男士是在试图购买她们的感情，把她们看成是赢得的奖品而不是一个人。

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I laughed when I heard of the bid and the number I thought Fernando Torres is worth more than and Numbers Chelsea can have their big money but big money doesn't buy our nando's affections!

当我听到这份报价和数目的时候我笑了，因为我认为托雷斯的价值不是用金钱来衡量的，切尔西确实有大把的钱，但是钱不能买到我们南多的感情。

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He quickly moved tens of thousands of Kurds to the south, cleared a five-mile-wide buffer zone along most of the Iranian border, and began massive industrial developments around the Kurdish towns of Mosul and Erbil in an attempt to buy the Kurds' affections.

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While companies like Dell went crowdsourcing innovation Nokia tried to buy its way into the affections of thought leaders with the Ideas Project.

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