他发现当作家挣不到钱，所以他决定开商店。

He found he could make no money as a writer so he decided to open a shop.

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在这儿挣不到钱，工资太低了，只能够吃的，所以准备回老家。

Here earn less money, wages were too low, only to eat, so ready to go back.

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虽然理论上和技术上来说电视是可行的，但是从商业角度来看，电视没啥搞头，根本挣不到钱嘛。

While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially I consider it an impossibility, a development of which we need waste little time dreaming.

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