Four quarters would have amounted to only forty francs, and he could not owe four, because six months had not elapsed since Marius had paid for two.

四个季度也只是四十法郎，他也不可能欠上四个季度，马吕斯在六个月以前便替他付了两个季度。

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There is no ironclad way to judge the stimulus, because we can’t rerun the last six months in an alternate universe.

我们没有铁定的方法去判断这项刺激计划的帮助，因为在更替变化的宇宙，我们不能重演过去六个月发生的事情。

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Thousands of workers in the UAE have gone unpaid for six months or more because indebted employers fled the country.

在阿联酋，由于雇主们逃往国外，数千名劳工已经被欠薪六个月以上。

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Watchdogs take the tiniest of naps because six months of watchdogging is exhausting and here we are: credit card peddlers are back on campus.

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The committee also chided the office of the information commissioner for going beyond what it could say for sure when it told the Sunday Times that the act had been broken but that it could do nothing about it because six months had elapsed.

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The banks were forced to throw good money after bad because, six months earlier, they had agreed (in exchange for meager fees) to cover Enron's financing needs should the high-flying, investment-grade energy giant ever find itself in real trouble.

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