To make the big bonuses sufficiently \ \ \ 'big \ \ \' they started out with an experiment in a place where even a psychologist \ \ \ 's grant money is a King \ \ \' s ransom: rural India.

为确保奖励足够丰厚，研究者们将实验地选在了印度农村，在这里仅仅心理学家的补助就相当于一个国王的身价。

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An emerald of that size, unflawed, would be worth a king 's ransom.

一块那么大、而又无瑕疵的绿宝石会是价值连城的。

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Some would argue that true glamping means living like royalty while paying a king's ransom.

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Not a king's ransom, but it stops us feeling most of the pain of Clean Sweep.

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Now, you are prepared to pay a king's ransom to keep him from trial.

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