In your private household, you would surely prefer to pay less for more rather than the other way around, yet that would be termed an "unfavorable balance of payments" in foreign trade.

从个人角度看，你当然是喜欢付出更少，得到更多了，但这种行为在自由贸易中会被冠以“国际收支逆差”的大帽子。

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There is also little chance of overseas aid payments by rich countries taking up the slack left by the drop in private capital flows.

来自富裕国家的海外援助款项也很难弥补私人资本净流入减少所造成的缺口。

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Many private lenders allowdelaying payments for a year.

许多私营借贷公司允许延期一年还贷。

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In a free society, private payments should be covered by merchant-customer privilege just as attorney-client privilege covers confidential legal communication.

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But with the addition of a clever piece of code called Zerocoin, it could still fulfill that dream of truly private payments.

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The ProPublica report does not distinguish between rare private payments for genuinely pernicious activities--like payola, which is already a serious crime--and those that finance crucial activities, like education and laboratory work.

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