Time is so valued in America, because by considering time to be important one can clearly achieve more than if one "wastes" time and doesn't keep busy.

在美国，时间如此宝贵，因为将时间视为重要的事情的人，显然比“浪费”时间而无所事事的人能取得更大的成就。

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It has enabled Americans to be extremely productive, and productivity itself is highly valued in America.

它使美国人有极高的生产力，而生产力本身在美国也受到高度重视。

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Everyone will agree, he argues, that happiness is the ultimate end to be valued for itself and really only for itself.

他认为，每个人都会同意，幸福是且只是人们因其本身而珍视的终极目标。

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"If they do not feel as if their efforts and sacrifices in NATO are recognized and valued, they will be less inclined to make those efforts and those sacrifices.

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This political life came to be shared by a relatively large portion of the people and participation of political life was highly valued by the Greeks.

政治生活自诞生起,就被绝大多数的民众所分享,希腊人高度重视,政治生活的参与度

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So, practitioners who understood what we would know to be chemistry were highly valued in that society. And then, you may expand it to other chemical processes, dyeing of cloth, glassmaking, and metals extraction.

所以，理解我们所知为化学的,先行者们，在那个社会是,非常宝贵的，当时，你可能将其扩展到另一个化学过程，如布料的染色，玻璃的制造，还有金属提取。

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The similarities are such that they can, at least in theory, be valued according to the same methodology.

ECONOMIST: Economics focus

Being human, he recognised that things can be valued because they look good to eat and that people can be valued because you love them or admire them.

ECONOMIST: Literary criticism

Tranched instruments have no clear market price, so they have to be valued with complex models.

ECONOMIST: Credit derivatives