In other words , all its relief and subsidy schemes are merely ways of robbing peter to support paul .
换句话说,所有的救济和资助计划仅仅是抢劫张三来支持李四。
A country with weak property rights and a rent-seeking bureaucracy , they argued , can invent new ways of extracting bribes and robbing businesses , but not of creating intellectual wealth .
他们认为,一个国家要是产权缺乏保护、权力寻租严重,会引发新的腐败和掠夺,不利于财富知识的创造。
He said the cause of his weight loss had initially been a mystery but that doctors had recently discovered a " hormone imbalance that has been ' robbing ' me of the proteins my body needs to be healthy " .
Concern for the environment is not something naidoo thinks best left until basic needs are " sorted out " because he believes climate change is robbing the poor of their traditional livelihoods and is increasing global impoverishment .
These measures essentially robbing peter to pay paul will require at least 400 miles of channels to be dug through farmland .
这些拆东墙补西墙的举措需要穿越大片农田,至少要挖掘650公里的水渠。
They are not robbing people - they are just " asking them to pay their fair share . "
他们其实都是强盗,却说“只是要求人们贡献出公平的份额。”
Here their revisionist view shifts responsibility firmly on to government and even the public , which was guilty of robbing banks of money they never wanted to lend .
在这方面,他们的修正主义观点将责任完全推给政府、甚至公众罪名是抢夺了银行从来不想放贷的资金。
Most of the people I talked to in prison said they would avoid robbing anyone who looked like they 'd be able to give an accurate description .
在狱中与我交谈的多数人都表示,他们会避免抢劫一位看起来能准确描述他们的人。
The world 's second-biggest economy had hoped it would more easily control its economic destiny by taking huge mineral stakes , robbing companies such as bhp billiton , vale and rio tinto of the ability to dictate commodity prices .
With politics in athens reduced to paralysis following sunday 's elections , which saw parties of the left and right robbing the coalition government of its majority , a key german policymaker yesterday came close to saying all this officially .