This in itself, of course, need not be a bad thing.

当然，这本身未必是一件坏事。

youdao

The word refers not to the fragility or loss of the thing itself, but to the human feelings evoked by its passing.

这个字指的不是事物本身的脆弱或消逝，而是指它的消逝在人心中激起的情感。

youdao

You might think nostalgically about the toys you cared about when you were a child, but what is making you smile now is not the thing itself but the memory of it.

你也许会怀念儿时的玩具，但是让你真正会心一笑的往往只是回忆本身而不是某个具体的东西本身。

youdao

So,first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself-- nameless,unreasoning,unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."

VOA: special.2011.03.17

So, when the right signal is received, the right T-cell finds your host cell with a foreign virus in it, the first thing that happens is that this T-cell becomes activated and it starts reproducing, making more copies of itself.

所以 当接收到正确的信号,恰当的T细胞寻觅到,感染外源病毒的细胞时,首先发生的是,T细胞被激活并开始增殖,制造更多自身拷贝

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So,first of all,let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless,unreasoning,unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."

VOA: special.2011.05.19

Such is the essence of the world, the nameless thing-in-itself, a melange of a priori truths that reside dormant within each man from the moment he is born.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Woodsburner'

He thinks it's right for the economy, he thinks it's right for the middle class, and would not be happier to sign that thing -- that bill right away if the opportunity presented itself.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

We agree that it would be no small thing if post-Cold War Russia aligns itself more closely with the West.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy