When we clean up the code, the cleanup we make will only pay off at some future time.

在清理代码的时候，我们为之付出的努力只有在将来才能受益。

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Although moonlighting sounds like a good way to earn extra income or make up for pay cuts, career experts say workers should think twice before taking on a second job.

虽然从事第二职业听起来是个赚外快或弥补收入减少的好办法，但就业专家表示，人们在打第二份工之前应该三思而后行。

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In other words, if somebody buys a house and doesn't pay back the mortgage, taxpayers have to make up the difference.

换一句话说，如果有人买房子却还不起贷款，这个欠款将由纳税人们来填平。

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Specific options include giving shareholders a binding veto on board pay, changing the make-up of pay committees and making compensation, including pay ratios, more transparent.

ECONOMIST: Executive pay

In some cases it started off as a form of wage restraint in the dark days of the 1990s: companies cut basic wages and employees hoped that performance-related pay might make up the difference, which it did not always do.

ECONOMIST: Still work to be done

But with the Majlis spoiling for an economic fight with Mr Ahmadinejad, it looks as though this time he may have to make Iran's over-enthusiastic motorists pay up.

ECONOMIST: Oil-rich Iran may have to ration petrol