Some say the act of paying causes people to value something and use it more.

一些专家认为支付某物的举动会使人们珍视这件东西并多加利用它。

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Some say the act of paying causes people to value something and use it more .

一些专家认为支付行为会使人们珍视这件东西并多加利用它。

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But beans are used to describe something of very little value in the expression, not worth a hill of beans.

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Think about that. That says, if this thing has some particular value, I want to do one thing; otherwise, I want to do something different.

考虑考虑，这意味着，如果这个事情有一些特殊的值，我就去做一件事情;,否则的话，我就会去做另外一件事情。

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So if you don't actually assign to something, it falls on the floor and the value goes away.

所以是，如果你没有赋值，它掉在地上，那个值就不存在了。

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But you have to buy a basket of them because--I wrote this for individuals--if you think of value investing or investing in general as figuring out what something's worth and paying a lot less for it, but if you have no idea how to value something, then you really can't do that.

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In the worst case, this continues to the point that the consequences of success can be worse than the failure you tried to avoid: What is the value to achieve something that is inconsequential, and nobody cares about?

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Audiences remarked on the poignancy of his struggling youths, who seem always to be searching for something to value in an America defined largely by class.

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