They were going to stage a large-scale money collecting.

他们筹划举办一个大型募捐活动。

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If everyone in the US would donate money according to that scale, it would yield 500 billion dollars.

如果在美国的每个人都根据那个等级来捐钱，那将产生5000亿美元。

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But independent military analyst Pavel Felgenhauer notes that Russia may not only lack the money, but also the industrial capacity for large-scale rearmament.

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it was reversible, so you can give people money and take it away, and you could actually scale the amount of money, so it makes a very handy experimental tool.

这个过程是可逆的，这样你可以给人钱，然后拿走，而且你还可以积攒钱，这就让钱成为了一种非常有用的试验工具。

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