It's unclear how much of the total was raised from wealthy donors.
总数中还不清楚有多少是由富人捐赠的。One day, one of his friends wanted to borrow an ox from him, so he wrote a note and asked his servant to take it to this rich man.
从前,有个人很富有,但他不识字。一天,他的一位朋友想向他借一头公牛,便写了个条,让仆人送到富人那里。It is all too easy to dismiss this line of reasoning as a hypocritical defence of the rich.
从这个推论里,不难发现为富人所作的伪善辩护。Voters will have to choose between them: defenders of the rich in the Republican corner, reckless spendthrifts in the Democratic one.
选民们也只能在他们之间做出选择:是支持一个维护富人利益的共和党,还是选择一个只会大手大脚花钱的民主党。His father was a shoemaker and his mother had been a washerwoman in the large houses of the rich before she married Andersen's father.
他父亲是个鞋匠,母亲则在嫁给安徒生的父亲之前曾在富人的大宅子里做洗衣工。If only we had a bit of beef and some potatoes, this soup would be fit for a rich man's table.
如果我们有牛肉,土豆位,这将是汤适合富人的餐桌。The United States' yawning income gap between the middle class and the top percentile isn't unique. It's part of a global phenomenon.
美国中产阶级和顶尖富人之间巨大的收入差距不是独有的。它是一个全球现象的一部分。A man was going to the house of some rich person. As he went along the road, he saw a box of good apple at the side of the road.
一个人正朝一个富人的房子走去,当他沿着路走时,在路的一边发现了一箱好苹果。Revolts against the power of the rich have been a regular feature of American history, going all the way back to Thomas Jefferson.
反感富人的权利一直都是美国历史的特色,这可以追溯到托马斯.杰佛逊(ThomasJefferson)时代。