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Hi, everyone! Happy New Year! But I'm trying to be happy. I'm pulled into a debate over "the very English standard" in a Chinese translation forum. A "sensible" lad who crammed in China's New Oriental Language School asserts that many usages, including those in nytimes.com, economist.com,...

Well, now I have to make a translation here, so there is no 'either way'; I have to be more precise. Grammar Geek wrote: ...they just have to accept that time is a factor in our lives that we can't do anything about. ...time is something we just have to accept "as-is." Just for your...