Rather than maintaining the now redundant leaves throughout the winter, the tree saves its precious resources and discards them.

这棵树并没有在整个冬天都保留现在多余的叶子，而是储存了宝贵的资源并抛弃了多余的树叶。

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The U. S. preemptively strikes out militarily in Iraq wasting its precious treasure and the blood of its youth.

美国不宣而战打击伊拉克的军事力量，浪费宝贵的资源和他们的年轻人的鲜血和生命。

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Microsoft may not win, if so then the software giant would even possibly loose all of its precious patents and copyrights as well.

微软可能不会赢，而一旦输掉，这个软件巨人将会失掉所有之前的专利和版权。

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India has snapped up nearly half the precious metal the IMF is selling to shore up its finances and increase lending to developing countries.

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And so, arguably, the fact that life is precious, that it won't endure, could actually increase its value for us.

所以，可以说，生命是珍贵的，它将不再这个事实，事实上可能增加了其对我们来说的价值。

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Second, despite its precious headline and cute lede, is the Winnipeg Free Press story on Ms. Eckler really about debt collection?

FORBES: Using Twitter for Debt Collection, Sort of (or Something About Rebecca Eckler's $9,000 Twitter Quest)

Was Tiffany's now taking a risk in allowing this, um, innovator to be given the freedom of its precious windows, its very invitation to the marvels within?

ECONOMIST: Gene Moore

At the company's mobile hackathon in January, he was presented with a pair of the brainwave-tracking novelties and immediately cracked it open to gain access to its precious torrents of data.

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