For all the talk about eating cabbage and eating with ordinary people, even then Hermitage cost a lot of money.

尽管他花了大笔金钱在"隐士山"葡萄酒上,但是他爱吃卷心菜以及与普通民众一同进餐

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What this has to do with global economy is that you have to be able to feed the population.

这与世界贸易之间的关系,就在于你必须先让民众衣食无忧

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