Young people at colleges in the United States have a lot of time on their hands to contribute to something greater than themselves, they sometimes just need someone to make them realize this.

美国的在校年轻人有很多可供自己支配的时间可以做点比花在自己身上更有意义的事情上，通常他们只是需要一个人来让他们意识到这一点。

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How often did you feel that you had something to contribute to society?

你多久觉得自己对社会有做出了贡献？

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Set up an approach that promotes personal growth and purpose: What you want to do is help employees appreciate that they have something to contribute and you want to help them do that.

促进个人进步和实现个人目标的方法：你要做的就是帮助员工认识到，公司需要他们的付出，而你将给予他们帮助。

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Many Americans say they will still contribute something to charity during the holiday season.

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And if something within psychopathology I thought could contribute to our wellbeing, I took that and used that.

如果我认为精神病理学的内容能对我们的幸福有贡献，我会吸取并利用之。

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Bitter pride, chipper laughter Then silence, each waiting for the other to contribute something.

苦涩的高傲，爽朗的笑声,沉寂却随之而来,每个人都在等其他人说点什么。

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And I think that will be a very big positive proposals for the families who earn reasonably well but not very well, have had to find at the beginning of their child's university education, about a thousand for fees (pounds) and also to contribute something up to a thousand for their maintenance.

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First, try to contribute something and then figure out how to live on the rest of your income instead of the other way around.

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And that, ultimately, is the idea at the heart of President Bush's vision: that each of us has a role to play, and all of us have something to contribute.

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