Better in fact to make nothing of oneself than to make something of oneself.

事实上，不为自己做点什么，要比为自己做点什么更好。

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The Ministry said the accident cause, time and accurate still can make nothing of it.

安全本部表示，准确的事发时间和事故原因尚不得而知。

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But the enemies, out of pure spitefulness, had drawn the cords so tight that the girls could make nothing of the knots.

但敌人出于怨恨把绳子拉得很紧很紧，两个女孩怎么也解不开这些结。

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Then,the whole thing blows up and all the Bear Stearns stock is worth just about nothing; so, that's the kind of mistake you don't want to make.

现在金融危机让所有泡沫都破裂了,贝尔斯登的股份也成为了浮云;,总之，这种错误你们是不想重蹈覆辙的。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

so you have to make a garment out of nothing like paper bags or plastic bags.

你需要从无中创造有，比如用纸袋或者塑料袋制作出服装。

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I think they probably also invented a few things, but it was very,very characteristic of the Greeks to borrow from the cultures they encountered and to adapt them, to make them more useful for their own purposes and nothing could be clearer than the alphabet as an example of that.

我认为他们或许也发明过一些事物,但从他们所遇到的文明中进行借鉴,将之应用到自己的生活中去,并使它们更适于希腊人自己的目的,这样的方式也是非常希腊风格的,也没有什么,能比字母表这个例子更能清晰地说明这点了

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It was written by someone who likes to make something out of nothing in my view.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

Do you think that the first African American governor since Reconstruction is, as you put it, trying to make something out of nothing and distracting policy debates, or does he have a point?

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

They need to explain why they would be nothing to make -- doing nothing to solve some of these problems that have been plaguing America for years now, decades.

WHITEHOUSE: Rebuilding the Economy, Creating New Jobs