Celeste asked for the money as a down payment on an old farmhouse.
西莱斯特索要那笔钱用作一座旧农舍的首付款。
Once upon a time, in a beautiful mountain inn, there was a greedy old innkeeper who was always thinking about money.
从前,在一个美丽的山间客栈里,有一个贪婪的老店主,他总是想着赚钱。
He makes money by buying old houses and doing them up.
他靠买旧房整修翻新赚钱。
Just to give you an example of his generosity—he gave me his old car and wouldn't take any money for it.
且举个例子来说明他的慷慨吧—他把他的旧汽车给了我,而且分文不取。
Similarly, money, growing old, sickness, deaths, natural disasters and accidents are all events which present problems to virtually all human beings.
同样地,金钱、衰老、疾病、死亡、自然灾害和意外事故,是几乎全人类都要面对的问题。
Without taking the money, I rode to the old lady quickly and bought the last one.
没有拿钱,我很快骑到老太太那里,买了最后一辆。
I was traveling alone through the UK. To reach places that were off the public transportation map, I bought an old car, which cost most of my money.
我一个人在英国旅行,想要到达公共交通地图上没有显示的地方,我买了一辆旧车,花了我大部分钱。
Her fantasies include painting the classrooms of shabby schools, leaving hot meals on kitchen tables in the poor part of town, and giving money secretly to a proud old lady.
她的幻想包括粉刷破旧学校的教室,在镇上贫困地区的餐桌上留下热腾腾的饭菜,秘密地给一位自视清高的老太太送钱。
We gave money to the old either by visiting them either personally or through volunteer groups.
我们要么亲自拜访老人把钱送到他们手上,要么通过志愿者团体把钱给老人。
Tom has been active in raising money for the old people's homes.
汤姆一直在积极为老人院筹款。
When her classmates got to know this, they all began to sell their old toys, clothes and books to collect money too.
当她的同学们知道后,他们都开始卖掉旧玩具、衣服和书来筹钱。
They support female soldiers raise money through their efforts, teach other kids about life lessons, and use their free time to care for the old trees we love so dearly in the community.
他们支持女兵通过自己的努力筹集资金,教授其他孩子人生课程,利用空闲时间照顾社区里我们喜爱的老树。
I needed a small amount of money so I took my old violin to a hockshop.
因为需要一些钱,我把我的旧小提琴拿到了当铺。
When his lucky streak suddenly ended, he might have thought that he would temporarily make whole the losses of old investors by giving them money from new ones.
当他的幸运女神突然离他而去的时候,他可能认为可以暂时用新投资者投入的钱来弥补过去的一切损失。
The old adage, "Do what you love, the money will follow" is actually very good advice.
俗话说:”做你想做的,钱就来了“,它的确一个非常好的建议。
The old joke is made real: losing money on every sale, but making it up on volume.
那个古老的玩笑成了事实:每笔出售都亏本,但却会在销量上得到补偿。
So the study challenges the old adage about money—because maybe money can buy happiness. If it’s not spent on just things.
所以该研究对那句关于钱的古老谚语(这里指“钱不能买来幸福”)提出了挑战---因为可能钱能买到幸福,如果钱不仅仅花在实物上的话。
Tell a miser he is rich, and a woman she is old, you'll get no money of one, nor kindness of other.
跟守财奴讲他富,跟女人讲她老,准没你的好。
Now, still poorer, she feels devastated because they cannot buy their son a laptop to take to college and she cannot give her 9-year-old son money for the movies.
现在,更加贫穷,她明显感觉得到冲击,因为他们不能给他们上大学的儿子买笔记本电脑,也不能给她9岁的儿子买电影票的钱。
We still raised money the old-fashioned way, but now I could approach corporations as well as individuals.
我们仍然采用老式的方式筹集钱款,但是现在我可以接近公司和个人。
For the 26-year-old events organizer, losing his love to money was justifiable.
那个26岁的活动策划,觉得因为钱而失去了爱情是正常的。
The old lady gave the soldier some money and then went with Karen into the church.
老太太送了几个银毫给这兵士,然后便带着珈伦走进教堂里去了。
In simple terms, the young and middle-aged save for old age by buying assets, often with borrowed money; the old sell them to pay for retirement.
简单的说,年轻人和中年人购买资产为了老了以后的日子,此过程常常涉及贷款;而老人则常常出售资产用来支付退休后的开销。
He turned the remainder of his money over to an old woman who claimed to be Emil's aunt.
他把其余的钱交给了一个自称是埃米尔的姑姑的老太太。
The problem is, once their child turns three years old, the parent no longer receives money and needs to find work.
问题是,等到孩子三岁,这些单亲妈妈就不能再接受补助,而必须去找工作。
Share prices have taken a beating as the industry has failed to come up with enough promising blockbuster drugs to compensate for the revenue lost when old money-spinners lose their patent protection.
在业界还没有研制出足够有前景的重磅型新药以补偿老的赢利企业失去专利保护时而遭受的亏损,其股价也遭受打击。
And both old money and new came forward with start-up capital for Silicon Valley's high-tech enterprises.
旧的资产和新的资产成为当时硅谷高科技企业的重要的启动资产。
And both old money and new came forward with start-up capital for Silicon Valley's high-tech enterprises.
旧的资产和新的资产成为当时硅谷高科技企业的重要的启动资产。
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