The most important things in life are not things.

人生中最重要的不是事物。

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Remember, the greatest things in life are not things.

要记得这一点，人生最伟大的东西都不是那些事情本身。

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Not things that hit you over the head, but things that are more indirect.

不是那些有如当头棒喝的，而是更为间接含蓄的事情。

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They believe that older people do not like to learn new things and will not change the way they do things.

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We can only show proper love and concern for things that are ours, not things that are common.

我们仅能对我们自己的事,展现适当的爱与关怀，而无法延伸至共同的事物。

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You want to use "it's like" sometimes to compare things that are not similar and sometimes to compare things that are similar.

你可以用这个句型来比较相似或者完全不同的东西。

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The new machine age is more about knowledge creation: brains not brawn, ideas not things.

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International organisations are not things that governments throw away lightly, however redundant they may seem.

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