There has been a long discussion about what people owe each other and how okay it is to try to make money.

曾经有一次很长的讨论,是关于自己欠别人多少,而自己应该赚多少才合适

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Oh, they are. And at the moment there is a bill that I think over the past couple of years has been presented to the legislator.

是的，现在,就有这样一个法案，在几年前,人们把它提交给了立法者。

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It is, needless to say, being a bright, brilliant idea that one guy thought of, it has been assaulted on all sides and there is plenty of controversy about it.

况且这还是一个人在千思万想后,所总结出的辉煌又灿烂的智慧,这些理论受到来自各方的抨击,并且存在着诸多争议

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Well,De Gaulle has been dead for a very long time, and there has been progress, but what has not changed is still the power in Paris, in these ministries, to dictate the life of schools, of almost everything else.

戴高乐已经去世很久,在某些地方已经有所改进,但是巴黎的权利,政府各部门的权利仍未改变,他们规定校园生活,还有几乎其他任何事情

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