Yet girth-management is big business, full of charismatic hucksters and fake science (fat-burning lip balm? ), earning $40 billion a year in America alone.

然而，腰围管理仍然是一件大事，这里充满着有推销能力的商家和伪科（燃烧脂肪的唇膏？），每年就仅仅在美国就可以挣得400亿美元。

Does Grace Poole earn a lot, then? asked one.

“那格丽丝·普尔挣得多吗？”一个问。

Every penny I make I donate it to this charity.

我把我挣得每一分钱都捐给了这家慈善基金。

Yes, to make a few pennies - to make a bit of extra money.

是的。赚零花钱是指挣得额外的钱。

It might even pay more money than your old job.

它甚至可能比你以前的工作挣得更多。

But for decades, studies have indicated that people with college degrees usually earn more than people without them, at least on average.

但数十年，表明，拥有大位的人通常比没有大位的人挣得多，至少平均说是这样。

She does it for so little amount of money, and it's so, so bad.

可是她挣得非常少，这真是太糟糕了。

Simone doesn't make much money. So, you hope she gets the high-level, better paying position.

西蒙挣得不多。所以，你希望她能有一份更高级，更高报酬的工作。

And are you making enough to live on yet?

你现在挣得钱够维持活吗？

I mean I can still spin, but I was stuck on the screen, earning coin... while I earned some coins, and it forced me to restart, yeah!

我是说我还能让这个转盘转，但我卡屏了，当我挣得一些金币时，它迫使我重新开始！

Even though I'm actually making less here, my self-esteem and my happiness are higher.

尽管我实际上挣得少了，我的自尊和我的快乐程度却变高了。

Louis received one hundred dollars--the first money he had ever earned.

路易斯得到了一百美元——他有以挣得的第一笔钱。

Yes, and I earned that horse during that stretch-- believe me.

是的，而且我就是在那段时间挣得了那匹马，相信我。

Living off crumbs means getting or earning very little.

Living off crumbs的意思是挣得很少。

Yeah, and you certainly don't have to earn my love. Thank you.

我对你的爱你是不用赢得的(挣得)。谢谢。

A British company slogs its guts out to win orders, create jobs, earn dollars!

一家英国公司累死累活拿下订单，制造就业，挣得外汇！

As part-time, low-paid workers, the women earned very little.

【low-paid】作为低薪的兼职工人，这些妇女挣得很少。

He had said that the real poor in this world, deserving of our pity and help, were only those who, either through age or sickness, had lost the means of earning their bread with their own hands.

他曾经说过在这个世界上，值得我们帮助和同情的真正的穷人，只有由于年老和病，没有办法亲手劳动去挣得面包的人。

Xu said that for some professionals, such as physicians, lawyers, academics, engineers, or artists, finding some forms of useful employment has never been a problem – some of them make even more money than in their previously formal employment.

徐说，对于一些专业人士，如医、律师、者、工程师或艺术家说，找到一些有用的工作从都不是问题——他们中的一些人比以前的正式工作挣得更多。

Though very happy in the social atmosphere about her, and very busy with the daily work that earned her bread and made it sweeter for the effort, Jo still found time for literary labors.

尽管乔处身于让她非常快乐的社交圈，并且整日忙碌于工作——这不但为她挣得了一份面包，更使这份面包由于辛勤劳作的缘故吃起更香——但乔还是能挤出时间搞笔耕工作。