There were times she couldn't put enough food on the table.

有时，她的饭桌上都没有足够的食物。

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Mexico has historically had high drop-out rates as poor families pull kids out of school to help put food on the table, and children often sell candy and crafts in the streets or work in restaurants.

历史上，墨西哥的辍学率一直很高，因为贫困家庭让孩子辍学，帮助解决温饱问题。孩子们经常在街上卖糖果和工艺品，或者在餐馆打工。

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He saw the food on the table steaming away.

他看到桌上的食物在冒着热气。

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The tipping point for so many people is the more constant concern of putting food on the table and providing for a family.

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And if they didn't need to pay me, then I wouldn't have any income to put food on the table for my wife and children.

如果他们不雇我,我就没有任何收入,来养妻活儿

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I think that if Ford and other car companies didn't use cost-benefit analysis, they'd eventually go out of business because they wouldn't be able to be profitable and millions of people wouldn't be able to use their cars to get to jobs, to put food on the table, to feed their children.

我觉得要是福特和其他汽车公司,不使用成本效益分析的话，他们最后就会倒闭,因为他们无法盈利,这样就会有数百万人无法开车上班，没法赚钱，养不起小孩。

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The food on the table is mostly gone, but the tour is not over yet.

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It was hard enough simply to pay the rent and put food on the table.

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What Jordan is about--for the next couple years, what I'm about--is putting food on the table.

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