By that I mean the stuff I spent money on was, in many ways, the sum of my ambitions. And those ambitions weren't the stuff of good stories.

这些我花钱买的东西，在许多方面是我所追求目标的总和，而那些都不是好的故事题材。

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In zero-sum games whatever hurts the other guy is good for you.

零和游戏中对他人的任何伤害都对你有好处。

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In sum, both HOP and RSPW are good additions to a library — but probably not the same library.

总而言之，HOP和RSPW都是对库函数很好的补充——不过它们介绍的库可能并不相同。

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The Tories hope that by taking the power of veto over new schools away from officials, they would end the zero-sum game in which a good school place for one child means one fewer for others.

ECONOMIST: Transforming Britain's schools

Good charts keep this in mind and give us a sum greater than the whole of its parts.

FORBES: The Anatomy of A Recipe

So the tax authorities believe that they will have a very good idea what sum, for example, the average family of four in southern Italy will be required to spend to get by.

BBC: Italian tax dodgers uncovered by the Redditometro