With the Crown's Treasury depleted when the fighting ended, the King's minister asked the Americans to pay one-third of the cost of the twenty battalions of redcoats stationed in the colonies.

战争结束时，英王室国库耗竭，国王的大臣要求当地人负担驻扎在美利坚境内英军二十个营所需军费的三分之一。

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Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Treasury Chief Alistair Darling plan to announce the package early Monday, after an intense weekend of negotiations.

在上周末激烈的协商后，英国首相布朗(Gordon Brown)和财政大臣阿利斯·泰尔·达林(Alistair Darling)计划将于周一早间宣布扩大后的救助计划。

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The last straw was the scandal last year in which the telecom minister sold 2G broadband access to a billionaire at a tenth of its actual value, costing the public treasury $40 billion.

压垮骆驼的最后一根稻草是去年发生的一起丑闻。 电信部长将 2G 宽带的接入权以实际价格的十分之一出售给了一位亿万富翁，造成了公共财政四百亿美元的损失。

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Eddie Teare, the Isle of Man Treasury Minister, said it would "strengthen the close political and business ties between Crown Dependencies".

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As chancellor of the exchequer before becoming prime minister, he sailed the (admittedly benign) seas of his decade at the Treasury in some style.

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"The minister told us that the Ministry of Justice is negotiating with the Treasury for monies to replace prisons in order to bring the cost of the prison estate down, " he added.

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