They both agreed in calling him an "old screw"; which means a very stingy avaricious person. He never gives any money to anybody, they said.
他们两个都说他是一只“螺丝钉”,意思是说他吝音贪婪。据说他从来不肯白给人家一个子儿。
Can anybody think of a way to raise money?
谁能想出个集资的办法?
This proved that people who deal with large amounts of money are as capable of irrationality - from reckless gambling to myopia and overconfidence - as anybody else.
这证明了整天和大把的钱打交道的人也和其他所有人一样不理智——从鲁莽的赌博到短视到过度自信。
He was always making money on anything that turned up if he could get anybody to try to make money on the other side.
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We have to respect persons and if he earned that money fairly without violating anybody else's rights in accordance with the two principles of justice in acquisition and in justice in transfer, then it would be wrong, it would be a form of coercion to take it away.
我们必须要尊重个人,如果他公平地赚到钱,没有侵犯到他人权利,完全遵守了那两条公正原则,最初占有公正原则和转让公正原则,那么向他多征税就是错的,这无异于强取豪夺。
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