Why do we really need to own every single piece of machinery when we can just borrow it from others and let others do the same with our things?

如果我们能从别人那借或者让其他人帮我们做这些事，我们为什么还需要一些没有用的东西呢？

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Some keep contact with their friends via Internet; some send letters and postcards, or even photos; others may just call and say hi, just to let their friends know that they're still alive and well.

有些人通过互联网跟朋友联络；有些人寄信、明信片，甚至照片；还有些人可能只是打个电话问声好，目的仅是让朋友们知道他们还活着，而且活得不错。

youdao

While I would tell others to let stuff go, forgive and forget, and just move on, I would keep adding to my emotional baggage and never dealing with it.

我会告诉别人：要顺其自然，要原谅要忘记，然后只要熬过去就好了，但我自己却在不断地累积情感负担，而且从来不处理。

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While some use it to cover their assets with a tax-free death benefit to their spouses or children, others are just as likely to go ahead and let the kids pay the taxes, the better to teach them a real world lesson on government confiscation of wealth.

FORBES

He slams not just the decision to let Lehman Brothers fail in September 2008 but others, as well the imposition of losses on uninsured depositors at IndyMac, a big Californian thrift, in July of that year, and the hit to preferred shareholders in Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae when the government took over America's two housing-finance giants.

ECONOMIST: Learning from the past

Like many others on the forum I decided that parental control was gone and I would just have to let go.

FORBES: First There Was Apple's MapGate, Now Welcome ParentGate