mattered

Even if it hadn't technically finished, I was no longer a virgin, and that's what mattered to me.

即使他没有真正做完，我也不再是处女了，对我来说那才是最重要的。

Only later did people realize that the technology was just a tool; what mattered was how it was used.

直到后来，人们才认识到技术只是一个工具；重要的是运用工具的方式。

He was able to influence and motivate people because he understood what mattered to them and was an excellent communicator.

他能够影响和激励员工，因为他明白对他们重要的，是一位优秀的沟通。

and since it was Christine's habit to bury the things that mattered most in the silence of her own being, she rarely mentioned her mother.

克里斯廷惯于把最为重要的事情深埋在别人无法企及的角落，所以她很少提到母亲。

She did not believe that such things mattered much.

她不相信此类事情非常重要。

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。

All that mattered was that they had a body to bury and perform prayers upon.

重要的是，他们有一具尸体可以埋葬并为之祷告。

It seems to me that the only thing that mattered was to get her husband back to her.

对我来说似乎唯一重要的就是设法使她的丈夫重新回到她的身边。

It mattered a great deal to her what other people thought of her.

其他人怎么看她对她来说极为重要。

All that mattered was being home with my family, feeling that connection again, and knowing that I wasn't alone.

重要的是和家人在一起，再次感觉那份联系，感受我不在孤独。

He was a southerner and older than we were by enough years to understand why the name issue mattered.

他是个南方人，比我们年长一截，足以晓得为什么姓氏问题这么重要。

And never has there been a moment when partnership between India and America mattered more to the rest of the globe.

而且从未有过一个时刻，印度和美国之间的合作对全球其他地区如此重要。

Live life like it was the only one you were going to get and like it mattered how you lived it.

过生活就像它是你唯一想要得到的一样。这就关系到你怎样生活。

If you were an engineer, all that mattered was the quality of your code.

如果你是工程师，那么最重要的就是你写的代码的质量。

He describes his relationships with the four women, apart from his mother (well, sort of apart from her), who have mattered most to him.

艾尔罗伊也描述了他与四个女人的关系，除了对他影响深重的母亲（好吧，先不提她）。

Which he'd talk about, over the small wooden chess table, as if nothing else mattered, as if there were all the time in the world.

和他一起坐在小小的棋盘木桌前，听他高谈阔论，仿佛可以不去在意尘世的困扰，仿佛全世界在此刻都静止了。

What mattered to him was to control symptoms, to be able to talk to his family and to leave a positive legacy.

对他来说，重要的是控制症状，能够与家人说话，并留下积极的精神财富。

Tess accepted his bitterness, not understanding the details. He did not love her as he had done, and nothing else mattered.

苔丝接受了他这一番谴责之辞，没有去理解它的细节。他已不像过去那样爱她了，别的一切都无关紧要。

For him, the feeling of his knee was the only thing that mattered he forgot about everything else in his body during that part of the swing.

对他来说右膝关节的感觉是他唯一要在意的，而不用在乎其他的那些挥杆细节。

Where Clare had deposited them she did not know, and it mattered little, if it were true that she could only use and not sell them.

克莱尔把它们存在哪儿，她并不知道，这无关紧要，即使在她的手里，她也只能使用它们，而不能变卖它们。