An interesting example of this kind of payment is provided by the story of a sales manager who had been trying for some months to sell road machinery to the Minister of Works of a Caribbean country.

有个故事是说明这类支出的有趣例子：有个销售经理几个月来一直试图向加勒比地区一个国家的建工部长推销道路工程机械。

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The interior minister, Charles Rogier, agreed to hand over a large sum of money to build a studio that would, after Wiertz's death, display his works in perpetuity.

内务部长Charles Rogier同意支付一大笔钱为其建造一座办公楼。等这位艺术家百年之后，这栋楼将专门展出其不朽的作品。

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The public-works minister José Blanco, a Socialist heavyweight, floated the idea of higher taxes for big earners during the summer, but the prime minister firmly squashed it.

今夏，工社党重量级人物、公共工程部长布兰科就曾提出对富人征加重税，但遭到首相断然拒绝。

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Only one notable unpleasantness marked Samoa's politics in Malietoa's time, the murder of a minister of public works in 1999, allegedly to prevent him from revealing the details of a corruption scandal.

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Minister of Housing and Public Works Ignatius Chombo said that by the end of the week it would release more details of the plans to resettle thousands of people.

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"Today we have extremely sophisticated technological equipment that is extremely expensive to buy, but which contributes nothing to the financing of the works that circulate on that same equipment, " Culture Minister Aurelie Filipetti said following the release of the report.

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