你怎么让我把好不容易挣得的硬币扔到井里？

How are you asking me to throw my hard-earned coin into a well?

youdao

大钱肯定是在做私人辩护律师时挣得的。

The big bucks are definitely in private practice.

youdao

我为曾经努力挣得的感到骄傲，可现在我的生活又陷于火热。

I'm proud of what I've accomplished. But my whole life is backfiring.

youdao

You are no good, inclined to drunkenness and routs and final disgraceful robbery of the fruits of my 'umble labors in the haberdashery.

你太糟糕了，常常喝得烂醉，跌跌撞撞地回来,把我辛辛苦苦挣来的东西抢走。

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