If we value something not as a means to something else, but for its own sake, let us say that it has "intrinsic value".

如果我们重视某物不是因为把它看作达成其他目标的手段，而是因为它本身，我们就说它有“内在价值”。

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The more promising way to success is to become the first - or among the first - to do something, and that means you should see something that other people don't.

能够成功的更有把握的方式就是成为第一个或第一批人之中做这件事情的人，这就意味着你能够看到其他人看不到的机会。

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This means you should not risk losing something you have by trying to get more of something you do not have.

这句话的意思是不要冒险拿你已经有的东西去换取那些看上去多一些但你未必能得到的东西。

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One of these is deep-six. It means to hide something or put it where it will not be found.

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plastic The good prejudice is our prior awareness that plastic meant something different in the eighteenth century than it means now.

好偏见是我们预先知道,在十八世纪的意思与今天的不同。

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It means that you wish or desire to do something.

表示你想要或期望做某事。

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Artists and writers have been known to call this experience "flow, " that moment when you become lost in the process of creating something, because you love the work and the goal means something to you.

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Just as diminishing marginal utility means more of something adds less and less to total utility (bank reserves), it also means that less of something (bologna) will raise its utility at the margin.

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So what they're measuring is, is how effective are these ads over a one-week period, which means something to the advertising agency, and certainly you want to be effective rather than ineffective, but it means very little to how the movie will eventually do or even profitability.

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