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。
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.
戴维斯说他与那个据称抛弃了凯蒂的朋友谈过,她不和凯蒂来往不是因为凯蒂是女同,而是因为凯蒂在这件事上面撒了谎。
Davis said that he had spoken to the friend who had allegedly abandoned Katy, and the friend had ended the relationship not because Katy was a lesbian but because Katy had lied about it.
“北冰洋”号究竟遭遇了什么不测?这艘高深莫测的货轮据称遭遇海盗劫持,然而不是在索马里波涛汹涌的外海,而是在风平浪静、风景幽雅的波罗的海欧盟水域。
What exactly happened to the Arctic Sea, the enigmatic cargo ship allegedly seized by pirates, not off the wild coast of Somalia but in the genteel EU waters of the Baltic?
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