If he can scrape together the cash to get it running, he hopes to start a business selling fruit.

假若他可以积攒现金让卡车上路，他希望开始从事水果生意。

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But it is also possible that the weather is turning and the debt that powers private equity's siege engines is starting-just starting, mind you-to become harder to scrape together.

但境遇亦可转变，促进私募股权的围城引擎运转的债务也开始——注意，只是刚开始——变得难以积攒。

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If we choose to buy pleasure, ease, and self-indulgence, somehow we must scrape together the purchase price. We may not eat our cake and have it too.

如果我们选择得到快乐，悠闲和放纵，那我们也要付出相应的代价。鱼与熊掌不可兼得。

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Aspiring owners continue to find it tough to scrape together the money to buy a franchise, and many chains are responding with discount offers.

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North Korea's bad behaviour, including its 1998 missile test, has made it hard to keep the reactor project going and to scrape together the funds for the fuel-oil deliveries that are promised until the reactors come on stream.

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