Consider airline points, for example: roughly one-third of them are never cashed in; people value the status and the attention they earn more than the supposed "actual" value.

比如，想想航空公司的积分：其中有近三分之一的积分从不兑换成现金，人们看重这种地位以及他们获得的关注而不是据称的“真正”价值。

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There is no Cold War, at least allegedly no Cold War any longer, and so the question of the status, nature, and structure of the third world is obviously wide open.

现在已经没有冷战了，至少据称冷战已经结束了，所以第三世界的地位，本质和构成问题,都有待商榷。

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The user works in the third mode, called the view mode in this article, when he or she wants to see the status of a human task or the result of another human task that is finished.

当用户希望查看某个人工任务的状态或已完成的另一个人工任务的结果时，他或她将在第三种模式中工作，本文将其称为查看模式。

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It's impossible to look at Teixeira's situation without comparing it to a more complicated Yankee drama: the status of third baseman Alex Rodriguez.

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It insists, too, that the third redeployment must be subsumed in the permanent-status talks, which, it proposes, should start forthwith.

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Figures from the United Nations suggest that of the 1.8 million Iraqis seeking refugee status across the world, almost a third are from smaller minority groups.

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