One man waited for five hours, only to buy one packet of pitta bread to feed his large family for a day.

一个男人为了买一袋皮塔面包排了五个小时的队，那是他们一个大家庭一天的火食。

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Mr Monks was astonished to learn that investors could sell shares they did not own, only to buy them for less when their actions had driven down the price.

当蒙克斯知道投资者能出售他们并不拥有的股票，仅为他们在打压价格后重新买回时，他感到很惊讶。

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It seems only reasonable to ask students to buy a dictionary.

要学生买一本词典，好像也没什么不合情理。

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"You can buy local honey. Local honey is available at stores only because there is a local beekeeper who went to the trouble of harvesting it, so the more beekeepers there are, the more honey there is.

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And the only way that you can get it to work is to rent the software from them. You can't actually buy, you have to rent it from there.

顾客使用这产品的唯一办法就是,向他们租软件，不能买，只能租借。

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They only want to buy the cheapest technology.

而是去选择最便宜的。

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Another wrongheaded proposal would allow an interest deduction only to buy assets that aren't already owned by a corporation.

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Now analysts say consumers visit the store to look at new tablets, phones and other gadgets, only to buy them more cheaply online.

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Clearly, issuing bonds only to buy them yourself does not in fact achieve the aim of raising money that can be spent on such sovereign bonds.

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