To compete effectively in international markets, a nation's businesses must sustain investment in intangible as well as physical assets.

为了在国际市场上有效地竞争，一个国家的企业必须维持对无形资产和有形资产的投资。

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But many services and intangible assets, say a unique patent or a global brand, do not have a market price, so it is hard to estimate what they are worth.

但多数服务及无形资产，比如一个独特的专利或一个全球品牌，并没有市场价格，所以很难估量他们的价值。

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It's no wonder that a group of French cooks want the baguette to become a form of intangible cultural heritage listed by UNESCO.

难怪一群法国厨师希望长棍面包被列入联合国教科文组织的非物质文化遗产名录。

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UNESCO says intangible heritage is important to give people a sense of identity and belonging.

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You can use this to express possession or a lack of possession of anything. Tangible or intangible.

你可以用它来表示你有或没有什么东西。有形与无形的事物都可以通用。

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Under German accounting the producer of an intangible asset like a film must treat the production costs as an expense.

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Their intangible treasure: a lifetime's worth of indestructible family memories -- like the time they met an Irish "leprechaun, " or when one of them got lost in China, or that weekend trip to Australia.

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The big news story of the day was Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) reporting that it had to write down a majority of intangible assets resulting from the purchase of Autonomy, a software provider.

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