1. Each demanded some payment that was overdue: twelve shillings for the furniture and oilcloth; one pound four and one penny for the General District and Special Rates; and one pound one and fivepence halfpenny for Poor Rate.
    三封信都是催债的，而且每项款都已经过了期。家具和油布十二先令；统税和特税一镑四先令一便士；济贫税一镑一先令五个半便士。

2. This money is in payment for the work you have done.
    这笔钱是对你所做工作所付的款项。

3. "Someone may have an estate of $1 billion and he may not want a second spouse to get a payment of half a billion.
    "有人可能有价值10亿美元的财产，而他又不想让第二个配偶分得5亿美元。

4. An interesting example of this kind of payment is provided by the story of a sales manager who had been trying for some months to sell road machinery to the Minister of Works of a Caribbean country.
    有个故事是说明这类支出的有趣例子：有个销售经理几个月来一直试图向加勒比地区一个国家的建工部长推销道路工程机械。

5. Genetic material taken from blood samples could be used for commercial purposes without adequate payment made to the groups that provide the DNA.
    从当地人血样中提取的基因物质可被用于商业目的，却不给DNA提供者以足够的报酬。