你能不能给小小的格尔达一件东西，使她能有力量克服一切困难呢？

Can you give little Gerda nothing to take which will endue her with power over the whole?

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电脑是我花钱最多的一件东西。

The computer was my largest single item of expenditure.

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这不是一件东西，这是一个人！

It's not a thing. It's a human being!

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So this is a thing, Week Number Four, saw very commonly, which was -- this is something we saw commonly and there's a couple of issues here.

所以这是一件事，第四个，一般的分解，那是我们讲解的东西,这里有好几个问题。

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My shoes were from the sale, but that's maybe like the only new thing I bought.

我的鞋子是在促销时候买的，但那可能是我买的唯一一件新的东西了。

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This is the one thing God says, "Don't do this! You can have everything else in this garden," Presumably, even, you can eat of the tree of life, right?

这是上帝所说的一件事，“不要吃这个，你可享用园子中其他任何东西“,我们猜想，你甚至能吃生命树，对吧？

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