社会福利会直接支付到接受者的银行账户,而非作为燃料或食物补贴发放,后者很容易被不端的官员窃取。
Social benefits could be paid directly into recipients' bank accounts rather than as subsidised fuel and food that is too easily stolen by crooked officials.
承诺给予更多的补助要比取消食物补贴来得容易。取消食物补贴会使西方农场主受益,但非洲农民会因此而遭受灭顶之灾。
It is far easier to promise a bit more aid than to dismantle food subsidies that favour Western farmers but can devastate African ones.
餐馆通常以廉价食物补贴昂贵的葡萄酒;最初的“免费午餐”出现在十九世纪末的洛杉矶,但也只是对那些至少有定购一瓶啤酒的顾客免费提供。
Expensive wine subsidizes food in a restaurant, and the original "free lunch" was a gratis meal for anyone who ordered at least one beer in San Francisco saloons in the late 1800s.
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