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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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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