实际上，这些书与金钱息息相关--谁得到了它，把它藏到哪儿，一身衣服要多少钱，你能在肉贩那儿赊多久的账。

Really, though, the books were about money ?who has it, where to hide it, what a suit of clothing costs, how long you can keep the butcher waiting.

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而且一旦他们得到了钱，他们对于可接受的消费程度的标准就会提升，因此他们实际上就需要这一馈赠来满足它了。

And once they have the money, their standards of acceptable consumption might ratchet up so they actually need the gift to compensate.

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它一分钱也不要你付，你却得到了新鲜的空气，看到了人们，大自然，商店，餐馆还有房屋和树木。

It costs nothing, and yet you get fresh air, see people, see nature, see stores and restaurants and houses and plants you never would have in a car.

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