You know, these days when funding is so hard to come by.

你也知道，最近筹太难了。

In business, seed money is the financing you need to launch a project or company.

在商业里，" seed money（启动）" 是你启动一个项目或者公司所筹。

In 2009, developed countries promised to mobilize billions in climate finance to support emerging economies.

2009 年，发达国家承诺筹上千亿气候融 来支持新兴经济体。这尚未得到兑现。

We need a better plan for how we're going to fund these kinds of climate disasters.

我们需要一个更好计划，在面对此类气候灾难时， 可以更好地筹应对。

Question 1: Who did Addison raise the money for?

Addison为谁筹集筹？

The Euro Zone is offering a ten-billion euro loan while insisting on extra cash from Cyprus itself.

欧元区提供100亿欧元贷款，同时坚持要求由塞浦路斯自己筹。

Today, with public indebtedness at its highest peacetime level in advanced economies, the main rationale is to raise cash.

而如今，让富国变卖家底，是因为他们债务水平正处于和平年代最高峰，实行私有化有助于他们筹。

So how does he actually build the cash generation that will allow him to launch a new aircraft?

他该如何筹推出新飞机呢？

Now Haitian businessmen in the US have also taken an interest in and are helping with fund raising.

如今美国海地商人对此很感兴趣，并且正在帮助该项目筹。

Financing is difficult too, since most of the land is owned by the village corporation, instead of homeowners.

筹也很困难，因为大部分土地是由村公司所有，而非房主所有。

Should government spending be financed by borrowing or taxation?

政府支出应通过借贷还是征税来筹？

Governments finance their national debts, and consumers borrow large sums to buy cars and houses.

政府为其国债筹，而消费者则借贷大额购买汽车和房屋。

It's not making you money, but it's making funds for the project.

它不会给你带来钱，但它会为项目筹。

Others have a car loan or had to finance a medical emergency.

其他人则背负着车贷，或是不得不为突发医疗紧急情况筹。

But there's also the practical funding mechanisms, like you mentioned with the dog.

不过，还有实际筹机制，就像你提到养狗那样。

I'm scratching around for some extra money to throw it in right now.

我正在四处筹一些额，以便现在就能投入使用。

You know what I'm going to do to help fund that book?

你知道我会怎么筹那本书吗？

We are trying to get that financed right now.

我们正努力为那件事筹。

That is, we got to get the budget funded now.

也就是说，我们现在必须筹预算。

You may be even willing to mortgage your house to finance the startup costs.

你甚至可能愿意抵押房产来筹创业初期。