限额可以给这个游说团一大块，给另一个一长条，制度的效果立马灰飞湮灭。

A chunk of allowances can be handed out to one lobby, a sliver to another, and soon the system's effectiveness has been sliced away.

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喷发处方圆数百公里内，连续数天或数星期，浅灰色的火山灰会一团团像雪一样从天空飘下。

For hundreds of kilometers around the eruption and for perhaps days or weeks, pale-gray ash would fall like clumps of snow.

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它就会挣脱我，像一团撒出去的灰。

He gives me the slip, like a puff of ash flung away.

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