It happened this past Saturday, and we now know that layaway Santa is Greg Parady, a local financial planner who was supposed to be here buying bicycles for Toys for Tots, when he decided to do a little more.

这发生在过去的星期六, 我们现在知道那位预付圣诞老人是格雷格·帕蒂，当他决定做多一点的时候，这位当地理财规划师就来到这里给小孩子们购买玩具自行车。

The latter step would largely offset the financial burden of annually pre-funding retiree health care, thus addressing a long-standing complaint by the USPS and its union.

后者将极大地抵消每年预付医保的财政负担，从而解决了邮政署和其工会的长期抱怨。

And again, another way of expressing the same thing is to say, " If only I hadn't paid the contractor in advance, we could've found another contractor." " If only I hadn't agreed to their proposal, I could have considered your offer." Okay?

继续，用另一种表达相同意思的方式，可以说成，“如果我那时没给承包商付预付款，我们就能找其他的承包商了。”“如果我当时不同意他们的提议，我就会考虑你的提议了”，明白了吗？

I know your husband paid tuition in advance for a year.

我知道你先生预付了一年份的学费。

We'll require you to raise sponsorship money of at least $3, 200, pay $250 of it up front as deposit, and the rest in stages through out the year.

我们要求你们筹集至少3200美元的资助款，其中先预付250美元作为押金，其余在全年分阶段付清。

She buys minutes when she uses her phone. But it is expensive.

她都是用预付卡买通话时数， 可是价格很贵。

And then the third section are what we call cash advanced items.

然后第三部分是我们所说的现金预付项目。

Here's a day in advance. Now off you go!

这是预付你们一天的工资，现在去吧！

23. Can you pay me in advance?

你可以预付给我钱吗？

This is the one here. The records show it was paid 3 months in advance.

就是这个房子。记录上显示已经预付了三个月的房租。

And they want to give us an advance.

而且他们还打算先付一笔预付款。

Look, we have prepaid the caterer for 400 guests.

听着，我们已经预付了400位来宾的婚宴餐饮。

The insurance company never fronts any money.

保险公司从不预付任何款项。

Glover paid a full year in advance with cash.

格勒弗用现金预付了一年租金。

It's like a publisher's advance to an author.

这就像出版商给作家的预付款。

What we support is you paying up-front.

我们支持的是你的预付款。

I'd read that Mario Puzo had just scored a huge advance for paperback rights to The Godfather—four hundred thousand dollars according to the newspaper—but I didn't believe Carrie would fetch anything near that, assuming it sold to paperback at all.

我曾经读到过报道，说马里奥·普佐卖《教父》的简装本版权得了一大笔预付金——据报纸上说是四十万美元——可我觉得《魔女嘉丽》的简装本版权即便是卖出去，价钱也远远到不了那么高。

The general public were buying on margin, which means – in a very simplified sense – they were making down payments on stock with money borrowed from the bank.

一般公众都是用保证金购买股票，从非常简单的意义上来讲，这意味着他们用从银行借来的钱预付股票。

The company has already taken deposits on the car from half a million apparently eager buyers, and Musk announced in August that Tesla is poised to turn a profit for the first time in the next six months.

特斯拉已经从50万急切的买家那里拿到了预付款。今年8月，马斯克宣布，特斯拉有望在未来6个月内首次实现盈利。

To take part in a card game such as poker, my friend would have to " ante up" -- he would have to pay a small amount of money at the beginning of the game.

为了参加一个纸牌游戏，例如扑克牌，我的朋友必须预付资金(ante up)。他必须在游戏开始前先支付少量资金。