To give and not to count the cost;

给予，不计较代价；

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We create our own thorns, and never stop to count the cost.

我们插上了自己的荆棘，却从不曾停下有过半点思量。

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We created our own thorns, and never stop to count the cost.

我们为自己制造了荆棘，并且从不停下来想一想这样做的代价有多大。

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Yet India refuses to count the cost of measuring its worth in military plutonium, rather than industrial silicon.

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Instead, some of his advisors privately despair at a population that appears to count the cost of democracy rather than understanding its value.

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It took China's central government until June just to count the cost of its massive stimulus, which added greatly to the huge debts now burdening its local governments.

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