Even if other people didn't notice it, it mattered to him that his work should be of the best quality.

即使其他人没有注意到，他的工作应该保证最好的质量，这对他来说很重要。

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That is what mattered to Bill and why he chose to become a Panthers' fan.

这对比尔来说很重要，也是他选择成为黑豹队粉丝的原因。

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That's because they bestow value upon things that once mattered to them.

这是因为人们给曾经对他们很重要的东西，赋予了价值。

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"I wanted to go to a place where bread mattered to people."

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But that's not the kind of thing about existence that mattered to me.

但是这样的存在对我来说并不重要。

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In terms of what mattered to me, what I wanted was not just that I exist, but that I be alive,indeed be a person, indeed be a person with pretty much the same personality.

说到对我来说重要的事情，我不仅仅希望存在，而是希望存活，作为人活着，带着我原有的人格活着。

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The only things that really mattered to him were his family and his art.

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But Alexander Todorov, a psychologist at Princeton, wanted to know what traits really mattered to voters.

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But he played the superior groundstrokes and won the points that mattered to ultimately triumph.

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