However, the United States, Britain and the other western Allies managed to keep Greece and Turkey within their sphere of influence in the mid-1940s, largely through massive funding provided by the new US president, Harry Truman's administration.

然而，美国、英国他西方盟国20世纪40年代中期通过新任美国总统哈里·杜鲁门政府提供的巨额资金，成功地将希腊持响力范围内。

Construction companies, which feature heavily in Hamas's portfolio, can quietly swallow huge lumps of cash and often receive large loans.

建筑公司， 哈马斯的投资组合中占有重要地位，可以悄无声息地吞下巨额现金， 并经常获得大额贷款。

I mean, these are unavoidably large price tags to do the kind of research that we need.

我的意思是，进行我们所需要的这种研究，不可避免地需要巨额资金。