In the scramble to swap gas-guzzlers for smaller vehicles, residual values collapsed, leaving GM's finance arm with huge losses on cars returned after lease.

在将耗油量大的汽车换成小型车的争夺中，剩余价值大幅缩水，使得通用汽车的金融部门在汽车租赁后的退货上蒙受巨大损失。

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The TMT will pay an additional $1 million annually to lease the land on which it resides, with 80 percent of those funds going to stewardship of the mountain.

TMT 将每年额外支付100万美元用于租赁其所在的土地，其中80%的资金将用于山体的管理。

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In a remarkable story of survival, this Hungarian stork was given a new lease on life after being fitted with an artificial prosthetic beak.

在一个关于生存的不同寻常的故事中，这只匈牙利鹳装上人工喙后，就重获新生。

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The Burma Road was a major route by which the United States was supplying China with munitions as part of the Lend-Lease Act.

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President Obama said the agreement with Fiat will give Chrysler a new lease on life.

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First Minister Alex Salmond said the government was bound by ministerial rules in dealing with the lease.

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As with any lease, the business deducts lease expenses before net profit passes through as income to shareholders.

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"Unless a revised amount is proposed and approved by Congress, it would appear extremely unwise for GSA to proceed with any lease that resembles what is being reported (in the press), " Istook wrote.

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