Count vi.

Count: to be important or valuable = matter

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例句：

1）How you learn it counts more than how much you learn.

2）Details count. 细节非常重要。

3）First impressions count. 第一印象非常重要。

句型：“What counts the most is not X, but Y.”

1）What counts the most is not how rich you are, but how you treat wealth. 财富观比拥有的财富本身更重要。

《极简欧洲史》（The Shortest History of Europe）中，作者提到“民主”的定义时引用了下面这段话：

2）When it is a question of putting one person before another in positions of public responsibility, what counts is not membership of a particular class, but the actual ability which the man possesses.

译：重要的不是发生了什么事，而是你如何应对这件事。

我的版本：It’s not what happened happens to you but how you react to it that counts/matters.

参考翻译：How you respond to it counts/matters more than what happened.

场景1: 屯书却不读,读书却不用。

What counts/matters the most is not how many books you have bought, but how many you have read. 

How you apply the knowledge counts/matters more than how much you have gained/acquired.

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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.                                  —Winston S. Churchill

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.