So long as Chinese consumption remains on a cash basis, very few people can afford to pay cash for discretionary goods.

That was not smart; it has had to pay cash up front ever since.

这并非聪明之举，自那以后，该国不得不以现金支付。

Would you like to pay cash or would you like me to hold this for you?

您要改付现金，还是要我帮您保留？

If your people can't afford to pay cash,

如果你爸妈不能交现金

If you cannot afford to pay cash, buy the furniture on credit.

如果你无法负担得起付现金，用欠的方式来买这家具。

If your people can't afford to pay cash.

如果你爸妈不能交现金。

He has to pay cash on the knocker.

他必须立即支付现金。

Are you going to pay cash or put it on your meal card?

你打算付现金还是在你的餐券上记账？

You'd better ask him to pay cash, his cheques always bounce.

你最好请他付现金，他的支票总被银行拒付退回。

We don't accept check-you have to pay cash down.

我们不收支票&你得用现金支付。

They don't give credit and you'll have to pay cash.

他们不让人拖欠你必须要付现金。

Ah, I only have American express. I'll have to pay cash.

啊，我只有“美国运通”卡，看来只能付现金了。

He gives me the slip, like a puff of ash flung away.

它就会挣脱我，像一团撒出去的灰。

He continues to puff away on cigars and listen to music in his office in an era where indoor smoking is all but unheard of.

他仍然在办公室里抽雪茄，听音乐，尽管现代社会中室内吸烟已经少有听闻了。

The impossibility, as with all bubbles, lies in predicting when investors will run out of puff.

和所有泡沫一样，不可能的地方是预测投资者何时将精疲力竭。

Perhaps there always comes a time when even prestige artworks run out of puff.

或许，声誉再高的艺术品，也会有跑得喘不过气来的那一刻吧。

I can't talk at the moment& I'm out of puff.

我现在不能说话，我喘不过气来了。

The hill was very steep and I soon ran out of puff.

山坡陡峭，我很快就气喘吁吁了。

The New Labour model, which aimed at social justice paid for by the fruits of more or less free-market capitalism, ran out of puff roughly when the money did.

新工党模式，旨在将资本主义近于自由的市场成就用于偿付社会公正，当其财力不支时，这个模式也走到尽头了。

However, the traditional hospital medical model, along with the rapid development of modern society, has begun to gradually out of puff. Complicated formalities process, vast amounts of information data, has brought the doctors and nurses more and more heavy burden.

然而传统的医疗模式，伴随着社会的高速发展，已经开始渐渐地力不从心，复杂的手续过程，海量的信息数据，给医生护士们带来了越来越重的负担。

He arrived out of puff.

他到达时气喘吁吁。