In spite of its importance to our emotional and sensory lives, smell is probably the most undervalued sense in many cultures.

尽管嗅觉对我们的情感和感官生活很重要，但在许多文化中，它可能是最被低估的感官。

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A century earlier, Henry Cavendish had noted the existence of a residual gas when oxygen and nitrogen are removed from air, but its importance had not been realized.

一个世纪前，亨利·卡文迪什注意到当空气中的氧气和氮气被除去，还有其他剩余气体存在，但人们还没有认识到它们的重要性。

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The reason often given for the low regard in which smell is held is that, in comparison with its importance among animals, the human sense of smell is feeble and undeveloped.

人们通常不重视嗅觉的原因是，虽然嗅觉对于动物很重要，但人类的嗅觉是薄弱而不发达的。

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And,it was called The City of the Big Shoulders or City of Broad Shoulders because of its importance to the nation.

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That is to say, it is subservient to the natural world; its importance is that it refers to that world.

也就是说，这些学科都是自然世界的奴仆;,它们存在的价值就是去解释那个自然世界。

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And what's interesting about it, and what indicates its importance to Buddy, is that Bessie gets on about him getting a phone ; where he's teaching in upstate New York; he's teaching writing as a visiting writer at a college in upstate New York. And Bessie, his mother, keeps saying, "Well, why won't you get a phone, Buddy?

有意思的是，这对巴蒂很重要，因为，贝西给他打了一个电话,在他在纽约北部教书的地方;,他教写作，作为访问学者在,纽约北部的一所大学里，贝西，他的妈妈，说，好了，为什么你不接电话？

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Luckily, perhaps, the rotating presidency has lost much of its importance since the 2009 Lisbon treaty.

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

On World Environment Day 2010, let our actions show that we understand its importance.

UNESCO: World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP)

But the figures are now bandied around in the media and it's devalued its importance.

BBC: Is trillion the new billion?