As well he might: the rising cost of living has caused a rash of strikes and worries that food might be scarce over the Tet lunar New Year holiday this month.

他担心生活成本的增加会引起罢工的狂潮，也对食品匮乏而不能满足本月农历春节的市场需求而忧心忡忡。

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Challenger warns that other salary increases are at risk as well, predicting, "Merit raises and cost of living raises are going to be held to a minimum."

Challenger警告说其他的薪资增长也会有危险。利益改善和生活质量的提高都将会被限制到最低值。

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If you're able to accept that life is for living, then all you do is live as well as you can, behave yourself, be fair to other people, and hope for the best.

如果你能接受生活就是为了活着，那么你所能做的就是尽量地活着，活得堂堂正正，对他人公正，尽量往好的方向想。

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Economic factors, such as your family income, the cost of living in your area and inflation, should be considered as well.

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So Hyundai Engineering and Construction seems to be living on borrowed time as well as borrowed money, with about a fifth of its 5.2 trillion won debt falling due at the end of the year.

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But, but it's sort of, it's a sort of no-win situation isn't it, because there are, there are editorials from time to time in the papers saying the younger Royals should jolly well earn their own living and not be on the Civil List, they should go out and get a job and like the rest of us have to.

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