An energy-induced slump could be mitigated if consumers meet higher bills by drawing on savings.

如果消费者通过储蓄来支付更高的账单，能源引发的衰退可能会得到缓解。

Is security simply the fact that you can, month after month, meet the bills and have the luxuries that one might want to have?

你可以月复一月地支付账单，并拥有你可能想要的奢侈品吗？

He says it might take him 20 years to pay them off, and he sometimes has had to work two jobs concurrently to meet his bills.

他说需要20年才能偿清，他有时只得同时做双份工作来支付账单。

Congress, it is true, could authorize expenditures but had to rely upon the states for the payment of contributions to meet its bills.

诚然，国会可以授权支出， 但必须依靠各州支付会费来支付账单。

On both occasions Fred had felt confident that he should meet the bill himself, having ample funds at disposal in his own hopefulness.

在这两种情况下， 弗雷德都相信他应该自己支付账单， 因为他有足够的资金来支配自己的希望。

This horse, then, was Fred's property, and in his anxiety to meet the imminent bill he determined to sacrifice a possession without which life would certainly be worth little.

这匹马，然后，是弗雷德的财产，在他急于应付即将到来的账单的情况下，他决定牺牲这一财产，没有它，生命肯定毫无价值。

Another Philadelphia merchant, Robert Morris, won for himself the name of the " patriot financier" because he labored night and day to find the money to meet the bills which poured in upon the bankrupt government.

另一位费城商人罗伯特·莫里斯 (Robert Morris) 为自己赢得了“爱国金融家”的称号， 因为他夜以继日地努力寻找资金来支付倾倒在破产政府身上的账单。