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Though it may be possible to measure the value of material goods in terms of money, it is extremely difficult to estimate the true value of the services which people perform for us.

虽然用金钱来衡量物质产品的价值是可能的;但要估计人们为我们提供的服务的真正价值却极为困难.

The matter, they decided, lay outside the commission's terms of reference.

他们认定这个问题不在委员会受托权限之内。

Linda and Tina were again on speaking terms; their disagreement was dead and buried.

琳达和蒂娜关系又好了, 他们的分歧早已烟消云散.

The article merely rings the changes on a few terms.

这篇文章里颠来倒去就这么几个词.

I am not on familiar terms with him, so we haven't talked much.

我跟他不熟悉, 所以很少过话.

My new neighbor moved in last weekend and already we're on speaking terms.

我的新邻居上周才搬来,可是我们已经认识.

He refused on principle to agree to the terms of the treaty.

根据自己的道德观念,他拒绝同意条约上的条款.

Your thesis wouldn't get across if you used too many technical terms in it.

如果你用了过多的专业术语,你的论文就不会被人理解.

I meet many businessmen, and I see they think in terms of the overall picture.

我认识许多商人，我发觉他们考虑问题都是从全局出发的。

Generous redundancy terms had triggered a stampede of staff wanting to leave.

优厚的裁员条件引发了职员争先恐后地要求辞职的现象。

The video explains in simple terms how the new tax works.

录像用简单易懂的语言解释了新税法。

She had come to terms with the fact that her husband would always be crippled.

她只好接受了丈夫将终生残疾这个现实。

It will shortly be put up for sale under the terms already communicated to you, which, to recapitulate, call for a very minimum of publicity.

不久它就可以上市，按照我们与你商定的条款进行销售，重申一遍，这些条款尽量不要对外公开。

It still can be argued that Japanese shares are overvalued in terms of the return they offer.

从其提供的收益上看，仍然可以认为日本股价被高估了。

These terms were favourable to India.

这些条款对印度有利。

She was thinking in terms of a career.

她在考虑干一番事业。

The differences in the children's achievements were not wholly explicable in terms of their social backgrounds.

那些孩子成绩方面的差异不能完全从社会背景来解释.

" Hot " and " cold " are contrary terms.

“ 热 ” 和 “ 冷 ” 是相反的词.

He was reelected for four consecutive terms.

他连着四任当选.

You have to explain it in terms that the man on the Clapham omnibus would understand.

你必须用老百姓能理解的语言来解释这事.

Year by year a few of these slang terms prove so useful that they graduate into respectable society.

年复一年,这些俚语中的一些证明是十分有用的,因而逐渐进入了上流社会.

They are on good terms.

他们感情不错.

It can not be measured in terms of money.

这是不能用金钱衡量的.

In the past the two of them did not get on at all well ; they weren't even on speaking terms.

以前他俩合不来,彼此不搭腔.

He spoke in very general terms.

他的话说得很笼统.

Both parties agreed on these terms.

双方同意这些条件.

We can not compromise on such terms.

我们不能根据这样的条件和解.

They two are on intimate terms.

他们俩很亲近.