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Yet nothing mattered in those days when people weeded their fields with a hoe or by bare hand before planting cassava.

那什么都不算一回事的年月，锄草、种木薯、拔草；而茅草根还能成为家中锅里的凉水呢。

The more sedate and older sections of the South looked down their noses at the up-country Georgians, but here in north Georgia, a lack of the niceties of classical education carried no shame, provided a man was smart in the things that mattered.

南部开化得较早的文静居民不逊内地佐治亚人，可在北佐亚这儿，人们并不以缺乏高雅的传统文化教育为耻，只要在那些在他们认为重要的事情上学得精明就行了。

It took a lavish state dinner and a couple of gatecrashers to restore the sense that this was a relationship that mattered in the grand scheme of things.

在一顿丰盛的国宴和一对儿不速之客的拜访之后，这样一种感觉才得以恢复：在国际大背景下，美印两国关系很重要。

The City, long notorious as a stuffy place where the old school tie mattered more than talent, became more meritocratic. The boisterous colour-jacketed traders in financial futures at LIFFE, a market founded in 1982, typified the new unbuttoned style of business.

金融城长期以来以裙带关系而备受指责，现在这个让人觉得沉闷的地方转变成为重视人才的场所，吸引了更多精英人士的加入。1982年成立的伦敦国际金融期货交易所，活跃在其中的交易人员身着亮眼的彩色夹克衫，这显示了金融城更加开放的管理风格。

What mattered was that he had deserted Chiang Kai-shek and of his own accord.

重要的是他自觉地背叛了蒋介石。

In a 2005 book, Richard Layard, a British scholar, said family circumstances, employment and health all mattered more to a sense of well-being than income.

在一本2005年出版的书中，一位英国学者理查德·拉雅德说，与收入比较，家庭环境、就业情况和健康状况更多地与幸福感相关。

I was just taking her hand, to help her out of a car, and I knew it.

我只是握着她的手，扶她下车，但我知道这一切。

China and South Korea have excoriated Japan over its approval of new school books which they say whitewash the atrocities committed during Japanese occupation, and anti-Japanese protests have been held in Chinese cities. The lingering bitterness over Japan's past imperialism still threatens to mar relations between the big East Asian powers

中国和韩国强烈谴责日本通过新的中学历史教科书，他们认为这一教科书掩盖了日本在其占领期间所犯下的残酷暴行，反日抗议活动在中国数座城市发生，历史上日本帝国主义制造的痛楚无法被忘却，这有可能破坏东亚强国间的关系。