The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell.

穿破裤子的慈善家，罗伯特。特莱塞尔。

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It's that almost every senior banker trousered bonuses over the previous few years on the basis of profits that turn out to be a chimera, an illusion, unreal.

几乎每个银行高管前几年塞进裤袋里的红包，都是靠那些到头来被证实是幻觉的利润而得到的。

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Carpet-bagging politicians rolled up in Mercedes cars with tinted windows, alongside turbaned Shia clerics and baggy-trousered Druze elders.

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And the health centre in Kongho may never be completed, because someone appears to have trousered the government allocation for building it.

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During the meeting the 65-year-old was hailed as "the red-trousered wizard of democracy" by councillor Simon Cook, leader of the Liberal Democrats in the city.

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