Why, the argument goes, should a car-driving pensioner from Lincolnshire have to subsidise the daily commute of a stockbroker from Surrey?

有人争论道，为什么一个来自林肯郡的、有车开的、领着养老金的人必须去补贴一个来自萨里郡的股票经纪人的日常通勤呢？

Low rates subsidise borrowers at the expense of savers.

低利率为贷款人提供了贷款补贴，但却损失了存款人的经济利益。

Will an ambitious plan to subsidise anti-malarial pills work?

资助抗疟疾药的庞大计划会有效吗？

Some cities also planned to subsidise access for poor residents.

某些城市还计划为低收入居民提供上网补助。

The Americans used Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to subsidise the housing market.

美国通过房利美和房地美来资助房地产市场。

In the very first week a scheme to subsidise jobs for the poor was voted down.

在第一周里，为穷人资助工作的提案被否决。

China will also subsidise 50-70% of the cost of large solar-power projects.

中国也将对大型太阳能发电项目成本进行50% - 70%的补助。

It would not make sense to subsidise a product for which there is no demand.

补贴没有销路的产品是没有道理的。

A further suggestion is to subsidise big, rechargeable batteries for the home.

进一步的建议是要给大型家用充电电池发放补贴。

I even said that there should be a tax on beautiful people to subsidise us ugly ones.

我甚至提出，应该对漂亮的人征税，以补贴我们这些丑人。

A sliding scale of fees is used for operations so that richer customers subsidise poorer ones.

按比例计算的费用会用于手术费用，这样富裕的病人可以资助贫穷的病人。

To lighten the burden for low earners, Dr Rosler would subsidise them through the tax system.

为减轻低收入者的负担，rosler将通过税收系统对他们予以补贴。

This is unfair to those without such insurance, who still have to subsidise it via their taxes.

这对于没有投保的人来说是不公平的，因为通过交税，他们仍然补贴了这部分保险。

In promoting research, it is likely to improve conditions for all rather than subsidise pet technologies.

在促进研究方面，自民党可能会提高所有技术的研究条件，而不是只对重点技术进行补助。

China Mobile plans to subsidise these high-end handsets for customers with up to 50 per cent off the retail price.

中国移动计划向购买这些高端手机的客户提供补贴，最高可能达到手机零售价的50%。

Outside the Golden State, however, the states most eager to subsidise ethanol were those with golden fields of corn.

然而，在加州之外，最热衷于为乙醇提供补贴的州都拥有金色的玉米田野。

I've decided to try to get myself sacked and use the huge pay — off to subsidise a more interesting, worse paid job.

我决定设法让公司炒掉我，这样我就能拿到一大笔补偿金，然后去找一份虽然薪水更低但更有趣味的工作。

It said loans could be made available to countries so that they can subsidise the price of staples to help the poor.

它说能为各国提供贷款，给大宗产品提供补贴，从而帮助穷人。

Fancier tablets could become cheaper, however, if mobile-telecoms operators were to subsidise them, as they do with handsets.

不过如果移动通信商像手机一样提供补助的话，较为奢侈的平板电脑还是可以变得相对便宜的。

That money will be used to subsidise non-paying users, and there is talk of giving free second-hand computers to the poorest.

这些钱将用于补助非付费用户，而且传言会发给赤贫者免费的二手电脑。

Critics worry that the company will use Sky's considerable profits to cross-subsidise its newspapers, making them unbeatable.

评论家们担心新闻集团会利用天空广播公司的巨大利润资助它旗下的报纸，使这样报纸变得非常强大。

To increase coverage, he would subsidise individuals and small firms to buy insurance and bar insurers from excluding sick people.

补贴个人或小型企业购买保险和阻止保险公司拒保病人将扩大覆盖面。

The state could subsidise the transition from traditional businesses such as commodity exports to new and more lucrative activities.

国家可以对诸如商品出口的传统行业向新兴的有利可图的经济产业转移给予补贴。

Congress passed several bills to support prices and subsidise exports, but all were vetoed by Calvin Coolidge, Hoover's predecessor.

当时国会通过了若干法案，意在维持价格、补贴出口，但是全被胡佛的前任卡尔文•科立芝(Calvin Coolidge)否决了。

You can abuse the market, distort it, subsidise it or tax it, but it is rooted in human nature and will prove your master in the end.

你可以糟蹋市场，歪曲它，给它发津贴或对它课税，但它根源于人类的天性，并最终证明你有多大能耐。

But, sadly, it is an all-too-rare event and there are only so many other feature documentaries that these successes can then subsidise.

然而令人感到惋惜的是，这实在是一件小概率事件；有许许多多其它的专题纪录片还需要票房来弥补拍摄的资金。

Airlines are reluctant to stop them because airport operators often use sales of duty-free and other items to subsidise landing charges.

航空公司不情愿阻止他们，因为机场运营管理商通常用免税产品和其它商品的销售额来抵充所收取的机场降落费。

Plans aired on April 16th to subsidise buyers of electric cars from 2011 make sense, despite the current limitations of that technology.

4月16日公布的补贴电动车的计划就很能说明问题，尽管目前这一技术还不成熟。

In theory a newspaper could ask its readers to sign up for a two-year electronic subscription, say, and subsidise the cost of an e-reader.

理论上，一家报纸可以让他的读者订阅两年的电子报纸，这样可免费获赠一台电子阅读器。