He is cagey about what he was paid for the business.

他遮遮掩掩的，不愿说出在这桩生意中挣了多少。

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But it also improved their school grades substantially, although this is not what they were paid for.

但是这同时大大提高了他们的学习成绩，尽管他们并不会因此得到奖励。

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What is important is that somebody gets paid - then I get out.

重要的是有人要收钱，收了钱我就出去了。

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And that health insurance is tax-funded, particularly for the poor, so that what happens is the insurance now pays the cost that the people would have paid previously out of their own pockets."

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this is what I get paid to do and it's this type of signifying gap that compels us as literary critics to dive in and to begin to explore.

这就是我被付薪水去干的事,正是这种重要的缺口,迫使我们像文学评论家般去潜心钻研。

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But then you come to the third part of this sort of triangular absurdity, and what you get to is big financial institutions with extremely well-paid individuals, in the presumably pure free market.

接着您提到了第三方,在这个怪诞的迷局中，您提到的是,大的金融机构,他们员工本身收入极高，在人们都认为,的纯市场经济机制下。

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Ultimately, Medicare payment rates will be one-third of what will be paid by private insurance, and only half of what is paid by Medicaid.

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"These are just a fraction of what we as consumers spend on soft drinks each year which is almost half a trillion dollars - the total required for species and sites is less than half of what is paid out in bonuses to bankers on Wall street's biggest investment banks, " he explained.

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So my basic assumption is that Mr. Fletcher advocates tariffs because that is what he is paid to advocate: no opprobrium attaches here for I too have worked as a press officer.

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