According to Chinese tradition, a single man must possess a house before he gets married, while nowadays buying a house entails a lump sum of money.

按照中国传统，单身男子要想结婚就必须是自己房子的主人，而在今天，买房子需要一大笔钱。

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They have been calculated by estimating how much money a person would have to receive in a lump sum to bring the same amount of joy.

它是按一个人获得相同幸福需要一下子需要多少钱的方式来计算的。

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Keep in mind that saving is more than a single lump sum of money put aside.

记住，省钱不是单纯的指将一叠钞票存起来。

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Rayburn paid CCS a lump sum of money each month that, in turn, was distributed to each of his creditors.

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"It's really easy, especially early in your career, to take a lump sum of money that some company wants to give you, " he said.

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The concept of DCA suggests that by investing a small amount of money each pay period into specific funds, over time, investors may get a better average price than they would if they just invested a lump sum of money all at once.

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