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1 goose feather sent from afar, a trifling present with a weighty thought behind it (idiom); It's not the gift that counts, but the thought behind it.

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女人好像都有钻石情结，一看就晕。不过老实说，钻石确实是挺漂亮的。比那些红宝石、蓝宝石高贵多了，而且又稀有。

nǚrén hǎoxiàng dōu yǒu zuànshí qíngjié ，yī kàn jiù yūn 。bùguò lǎoshí shuō ，zuànshí quèshí shì tǐng piàoliang de 。bǐ nàxiē hóng bǎoshí 、lán bǎoshí gāoguì duō le ，érqiě yòu xīyǒu 。

It seems like girls all have a fixation on diamonds. They go gaga at the sight of one. But frankly, diamonds really are very beautiful. They're more valuable than rubies and sapphires, and much rarer.

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队伍这么庞大啊！对了，我觉得你们中国人有很深的数字情结，我老是听说“四大什么什么”，这个“十八”也常常听到，什么女大十八变啊，十八般武艺样样精通啊。

duìwǔ zhème pángdà a ！duìle ，wǒ juéde nǐmen Zhōngguórén yǒu hěn shēn de shùzì qíngjié ，wǒ lǎoshì tīngshuō “sì dà shénme shénme ”，zhè ge “shí bā ”yě chángcháng tīngdào ，shénme nǚ dà shí bā biàn a ，shí bā bān wǔyì yàngyàng jīngtōng a 。

That's an enormous group! Anyway, I think you Chinese have an obsession with numbers. I always hear about ”The Four Great“ whatevers. I also hear the number 18 quite a bit, like ”a woman's 18 changes“, being proficient in “the 18 classical weapons”.

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国内的导演和影迷似乎都有“奥斯卡情结”，其实奥斯卡奖只是一个以美国人的评判标准设立的电影奖项，并不代表国际水平，而且商业性很强，我觉得即使得奖了也不代表影片的艺术价值高。

guónèi de dǎoyǎn hé yǐngmí sìhu dōu yǒu “àosīkǎ qíngjié ”，qíshí àosīkǎ jiǎng zhǐshì yī ge yǐ měiguórén de píngpàn biāozhǔn shèlì de diànyǐng jiǎngxiàng ，bìng bù dàibiǎo guójì shuǐpíng ，érqiě shāngyèxìng hěn qiáng ，wǒ juéde jíshǐ déjiǎng le yě bù dàibiǎo yǐngpiàn de yìshù jiàzhí gāo 。

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