古董是美丽而经得起时间考验的东西。说不完的古董故事，因为恒久，所以珍贵。

Antique is beautiful and stand the test of time things. The antique story, because permanent, so precious.

youdao

当然，总还是有那么几个我们所珍视的人，过了三天也不“发臭”的那几个。 这几个绝对是珍贵的例外，所以，一定要紧紧抱住别放手。

There are, of course, a few people we each hold dear, people who do not begin to smell after three days; but these people are the glorious exceptions, so hold on to them tight.

youdao

因为他跟妻子生她时都已经快四十了，所以她的出生显得尤为珍贵。

Her birth was particularly precious because he and his wife were already in their late thirties.

youdao

And so, arguably, the fact that life is precious, that it won't endure, could actually increase its value for us.

所以，可以说，生命是珍贵的，它将不再这个事实，事实上可能增加了其对我们来说的价值。

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So, you can have a kind of system of symbols that's gemlike and pleasurable and that calls you to submit to it as it does here for Oedipa, but in the end there is something more that her search will produce, and that is the moment of compassion.

所以你能够有种珍贵和令人愉快的象征系统,它能让你向它屈服,就像对Oedipa一样，不过在最后她的寻找得到了更多的东西,这就是同情的瞬间，我想提出的是眼泪贯穿了正本书。

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