Why, the argument goes, should a car-driving pensioner from Lincolnshire have to subsidise the daily commute of a stockbroker from Surrey?
有人争论道,为什么一个来自林肯郡的、有车开的、领着养老金的人必须去补贴一个来自萨里郡的股票经纪人的日常通勤呢?
Plucking up courage, the man approaches the pensioner.
年轻人鼓了鼓勇气,走近两位可敬的老人。
Don't be surprised if your pensioner parents head for the divorce courts.
如果你的已经退休并且领取退休金的父母,前往离婚裁决法庭,请不要惊讶。
The cemetery phantom had been caught thanks to a lively elderly pensioner.
这个“墓地幽灵”的落网归功于一个很有活力的退休老人。
But 15 years on, a pensioner has come forward to cast doubt on the spectre.
然而15年后,一个退休老人逐步揭开了幽灵疑云。
But by 2050 this will have come down to only two workers for every pensioner.
预计到2050年,负担会加重,每2个工人就需要供养1位老人。
ARPUTHAM AMMAL, a pensioner with curly silver hair and a wheezing cough, is an abolitionist.
满头卷曲白发、不时气喘咳嗽的退休金领取人阿普塔姆·安马尔是一名主张废除死刑的支持者。
When public pensions were introduced in the 1960s there were 11 workers for every pensioner.
当公共退休养老金保障在在20世纪60年代推行时,是由11位在职人员供养一位领取退休养老金的人。
His skin is thinning, his hair grows slowly and he suffers from the physical problems of a pensioner.
他的皮肤是薄的,头发生长的很慢,和老人一样,他的身体也经常出现问题。
According to a report by the authorities, every 2 taxpayers would have to support 1 pensioner in 2035.
据权威部门的报告,到2035年,我国每2名纳税人要供养1名养老金领取者。
The pensioner is particularly wary of state-run companies, because she believes they are unpredictable.
离退休人员对国有公司一般都格外警觉,因为他们认为这些公司高深莫测。
France and Britain will have a much more favourable age pyramid, with more than two workers per pensioner.
法国和英国会有有利的多的年龄金字塔,每个退休者会有超过两个工作的人供养。
The pensioner longed for a new family and her 66-year-old husband supported her idea of having another baby.
这位老人渴望一个新家,而且她66岁的老伴儿支持她再要一个孩子的想法。
Current projections suggest that by 2030 there will be only about two Italians aged 20-64 for every pensioner.
据当前的预测表明,到2030年时,每个领取养老金的退休人员中只有2个年龄在20- 64岁的意大利人。
In rich countries there are now roughly four workers for every pensioner. By 2050 there will be little more than two.
如今在发达国家,每个老人大约由四个工作者抚养,到2050年将减少至两个。
The approach is one of Gordon Brown's policies that have undermined private pensions and created two pensioner nations.
这种做法是戈登·布朗损害私人养老金并创造两个领养老金者国家的政策之一。
The pensioner told CCTV News: 'I'd like to see the sea in Sanya this winter, but just fear the loneliness of traveling solo.
这位老人对中央台说:“我想今年冬天去三亚看海,但是害怕一个人旅游会孤独。”
The pensioner told CCTV News: 'I'd like to see the sea in Sanya this winter, but just fear the loneliness of traveling solo. '
这位老人对中央台说:“我想今年冬天去三亚看海,但是害怕一个人旅游会孤独。”
The oldest among July's 615 participants is pensioner Gwynneth Pedler, 83, from Oxford, who plans to signal with semaphore flags.
即将在七月份登场的年纪最大的参与者是83岁来自牛津的GwynnethPedler,她准备打旗语。
In a schoolyard a few score of boys, plus a pensioner who says he last held a gun 35 years ago, gather for three hours of training.
学校操场上,二十几位男孩还有一位退休老人,他说自己上一次摸枪已经是35年前了,集合起来接受三小时训练。
They were instantly on, shocking the rumpled sleeper in his bed, and as instantly off (" Oh, sorry! "), tripping the pensioner on the stair.
白炽灯能瞬时点亮,使正睡在凌乱的床上的人感到震惊,同样它们被即刻熄灭(“噢,对不起!”),使得老人一下绊倒在楼梯上。
A Romanian pensioner has filed for divorce after 50 years because she is fed up with her husband spending their entire pension on stray dogs.
已经结婚50年的罗马尼亚退休老人提出了离婚,只因为她厌倦了丈夫把退休金都用在了流浪狗身上。
To police in a New Jersey seaside town, the rock legend Bob Dylan was merely an eccentric pensioner wandering the streets in the pouring rain.
对新泽西州一个海边小镇的警察来说,摇滚史上的传奇人物鲍勃·迪伦(Bob Dylan)只不过是个在倾盆大雨中漫步街头的行为古怪的老人。
To police in a New Jersey seaside town, the rock legend Bob Dylan was merely an eccentric pensioner wandering the streets in the pouring rain.
对新泽西州一个海边小镇的警察来说,摇滚史上的传奇人物鲍勃·迪伦(Bob Dylan)只不过是个在倾盆大雨中漫步街头的行为古怪的老人。
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