Water is a precious commodity that is often taken for granted in the West.

水很宝贵，但在西方人们往往意识不到这一点。

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Marble is a precious stone.

大理石是一种珍贵的石料。

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It was a precious moment.

这是一个宝贵的时刻。

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Today it is a museum. Inside are precious artifacts from the family's daily life, including scraps of hand-written poetry and the manuscript of a polonaise written by young Frederic when he was eight-years-old.

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To the broody hen, the notion would probably seem monstrous that there should be a creature in the world to whom a nestful of eggs was not utterly fascinating and precious and never to be too-much-sat-upon object which it is to her.

对母鸡来说，这个概念可能看起来荒谬,世界上有一种生物,对一窝鸡蛋,着迷，觉得弥足珍贵,对她而言，永远不觉得,孵蛋时间太长。

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It is underpopulated right now, so if you are still shopping for a humanities subject, this one bears the precious CI-H designation.

现在它们的选课人数比较少，如果你们还需要一门人文学科，这些都是很可贵的沟通密集型课程。

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For one thing, fund-raising takes a lot of time almost as precious a commodity as cash at this stage in the race.

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Strauss' background willingly be party to Bush policies that threaten so precious a commodity for the international community -- and especially its less developed nations?

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It's a precious part of a neighborhood that's holding on for dear life to respectability and continuity.

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