A farmer in Zambia said he hoped to have enough money in three years to buy a diesel-powered pump.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

Technically, Fannie and Freddie are private companies -they're traded stocks; you can buy shares in Fannie and Freddie.

技术上,房利美和房地美都是私人公司,它们的股票可流通,你可以购买房利美和房地美的股票

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and see if there's any, kind of anything in the sales or any T-shirts or trainers that I might buy.

看看有没有东西在促销或者T恤或跑鞋我可以买的。

科芬园的氛围 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

George Steinbrenner led a group of investors to buy the Yankees for ten million dollars in nineteen seventy-three.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

What it does for him is allow him to buy his aunt this symbol of a middle-class American domesticity, and he is a happy participant in this new purchase.

这让他能够给阿姨,买这个美国中产阶级家庭生活的象征物，而他也很高兴能这么做。

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In addition,some low-income areas do not have enough supermarkets where people can buy fresh and healthy foods.

VOA: special.2010.06.07

just exactly a year ago--saying, the best time in at least ten years to buy a house.

在电视上说，一个持续10年的买房子的好时候。

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So is cigarette smuggling. Smugglers stock up on cigarettes in low-tax states or buy them tax-free on Indian reservations.

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

One's from Burger King and one is from KFC, and when I show these to you-- we'll talk a lot about food marketing in the United States, because if you buy the premise that I laid out a few moments ago, that what we consider food and what we consider to taste good is pretty much a total social construction.

一个是汉堡王的,一个是肯德基的,在我播放这两个广告的同时,我们要讲下美国的食物市场营销策略,因为如果你买了我之前出的那本提纲,其中讲到了我们对待食物的态度,我们,判定食物好吃与否的标准是种社会意识

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But in developing countries, especially Africa, patients buy medicines -- often counterfeit -- to treat life threatening diseases like malaria,tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

Someone who buys a fifty-story building downtown and then, well, arranges to buy and gets partners -limited partners--to join in financing it; that's the arrangement.

比如有人想在市区买幢55层大厦,那么他会安排购买事宜并召集合伙人,也就是有限合伙人参与融资,这就是他们的运作模式

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Even with poor gas mileage on most RV units, these vagabonds can travel for about one-fifth what others pay who fly, buy meals in restaurants, and stay in motels.

VOA: standard.2010.03.01

When you buy a house, you borrow the money and you pay it back in fixed-- it would usually be monthly, but let's say annual payments.

当你买了一座房子,你贷了些款,然后你在一定的时间内偿还一部分,一般来说都是按月来算的,但是假设我们是按年支付的

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A Western diplomat close to the EU meeting in Harare told VOA it is clear that Mr.Mugabe is blocking full compliance with the political agreement in order to buy time to rebuild ZANU-PF, which has been weakened by internal quarrels and a loss of popular support, even in its traditional strongholds.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

Savings and Loans are the same as Building Societies, but the idea--the original idea and also the general idea today -is that these are banks set up for small savers in order that they can buy a house.

储贷协会和建房互助协会是一回事,其初衷以及现在的一般理念是,这些银行的建立是为了,让小额储蓄者买得起房子

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Most companies do splits because that might close the-- you might have been thinking about investing in Google but you could still--you could just say, I want to buy ten shares or five shares and the broker will do it for you, but they might charge a higher commission.

大部分公司会分割,因为这样会关闭...,比如你想投资谷歌,但是你可以说,我想买十股,或者五股,经纪人会照办,但是会索取更高的佣金

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