And patients are the ones who pay—in the form of sky-rocketing prescription prices—for every pen that's handed out, every free theatre ticket, and every steak dinner eaten.

而患者则是以天价处方药的形式，为每一支派发的钢笔、每一张免费的戏票、每一次吃的牛排晚餐买单。

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By studying bacteria that flourish in the oxygen-free water, scientists hope, among other things, to learn how simple life-forms can lead to more complex ones.

通过研究这些生活在无氧环境下细菌，科研人员希望了解这些简单的生物是如何进化成更为复杂的生物的。

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When that happened in Europe, power-generation companies passed the cost of buying permits on to consumers and pocketed the value of the ones they had been given free.

而这样做在过去欧洲的情况是，电力公司将购买许可证的成本转嫁到消费者身上，并把免费得到许可证的好处吞掉。

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"The key to owning these stocks is to invest in the ones that are free of debt, " Winer says.

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Posters of Bashar al-Assad, who succeeded his father Hafez in 2000, are everywhere on Jabal Muhsin, while rebel Free Syrian Army flags outnumber Lebanese ones in the Sunni areas nearby.

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Taking Greek junk bonds in return for risk-free Bundesbank ones.

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