A mother might have to decide whether to keep her baby alive or split her money to feed all her children.

一位母亲可能不得不做出选择，是让她的一个孩子存活还是分掉她的钱来喂养所有孩子。

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Banks that acknowledged non-performing loans risked falling below those standards, so they kept zombie borrowers alive on a drip-feed of fresh money.

如果银行承认存在不良贷款，则有不达标的风险，所以银行就不断给这些死而不僵的借贷者注入资金，让他们苟延残喘。

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I suppose it was even though I did it to keep me alive and feed many people.

我看该是的，尽管我是为了养活自己并且给许多人吃用才这样干的。

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If a slave dies you got to buy a new machine, and while he's alive you got to feed him.

如果一个奴隶死掉了,你就得买台新的,他活着时你还要养着他

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Robin: Apart from the immediate needs for the people for food to keep them alive today, tomorrow and coming weeks, you also have the problem of how they are going to feed themselves in the months to come.

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