今天的报上有什么重要东西吗?。

Is there anything important in todays paper?

我们从家里拿了重要东西出来，大约花了一个小时。

We took about an hour to gather what we thought was important.

我们的工作记忆在筛选信息、记住重要东西的时候是至关重要的，但它是一种非常有限的资源。

Our working memory plays a critical role in our ability to filter information and remember what is valuable but it is also a limited resource.

但纽约有18%的像我一样的成年人，不知道怎么去读他们所需的重要东西。

But 18% of New York adults like me don't know how to read the crucial things they need.

它们帮助我放弃执着于那些我曾经那样牢牢抓住并认为对我的生活来说是非常重要东西。

They help me abandon attachments to things that I once held with such firm grip and believed to be so important to my life.