She wants to put some of her meager savings in a bank to take back to the village when she returns, but she has been unable to open an account.

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And if someone said, it's 4%, you'd say, well that's kind of meager, I want a better dividend than that.

如果他说,是4%,你会觉得少,我想要更高的股利

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He was born in relatively meager and humble circumstances in Kentucky, not what, about 80 miles from where Abraham Lincoln was born, in even meagerer circumstances.

他出生在肯塔基州一个,相对贫寒的家庭,不过不是约80英里外林肯出生的,那个更穷苦的地方

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