Say you were buying a new car, would your discussion begin and end with the monthly payment?

假定你要买辆新车，你开始和结束讨论时的问题会是按月付款的数额吗？

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His provisional health coverage — a carryover from his last job — will end this month because he can no longer afford the $250 monthly payments, leaving him with a tumor in his foot and no insurance.

他上份工作中临时帮他买了医保，但本月末他就没钱支付每月250美元的医保。 现在他脚上长了个瘤，而且还没医保。

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He forecasts monthly new yuan loans of 300 billion yuan to 500 billion yuan through the end of this year.

他预测接下来月度新增贷款将保持在3000亿到5000亿元。

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The monthly chart for SPY shifts to negative at the end of September with a monthly close below the five-month modified moving average at 127.52.

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For decades, salesmen have encouraged people nearing retirement to elect to take their monthly pension as a larger amount that will end at their death, instead of accepting a smaller monthly pension with payouts that will continue over the life of a spouse.

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Retain monthly statements, year-end reports and trade confirmations, and annotate them as appropriate.

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