We feel responsible for keeping certain things (gifts from our relatives of friends) and holding on to memories.

我们觉得保存一些物品（比如，亲朋送的礼物）留住回忆是我们职责之所在，而长此以往，这会产生很多杂乱的东西以及巨大的精神负担，阻止了生活前进的步伐。

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Things could be trickier for investment banks that became bank holding companies during the crisis.

对投行来说在危机期间握有公司可能使局面变得更加棘手。

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Perhaps humans have simply entered a new stage of evolution in which we have abandoned chocolates, door holding, flowers or any overt gesture of interest for a new and unnatural order of things.

也许人类仅仅是进化到了一个新阶段，我们为了一个崭新的不自然的事物顺序，抛弃了送巧克力，扶着门框，送花或者任何明显展露爱意的姿势。

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They come up to us and give us these things that they've been holding on for years,

他们来观看这些坚持了这么多年的东西，

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David and his wife developed a new kind of clothing system for holding things together.

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But there is a case for holding cash on the ground that things may get worse before they get better.

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Boesky never wanter to pay for Drexel's services--among other things for advice on possible acquisition candidates for his Northview holding company.

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