Beggars cannot be choosers.

乞丐不能挑肥拣瘦。

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But the reality is that in straitened economic times, beggars cannot be choosers.

但是，现实是：在经济困境时代，穷光蛋是没有选择的。

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But beggars cannot be choosers and newspaper managers have generally preferred to suffer the whims of deep-pocketed proprietors than go out of business.

不过乞讨者不可能是选择者，而报业经理人通常更倾向于忍受这些非常有钱的资本家的怪念头而不愿意歇业。

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Although critics decry these as low-wage jobs, in a city with an unemployment rate of 7.8% (and very much higher in the inner wards), beggars cannot be choosers.

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