There had to be something he could do to help raise the rent money.

他必须有所作为 可以帮助提高租金。

I gambled away what little we had on the hopes of getting the rent money.

我输掉的是那一点点可能用来赢得房租的小钱。

Such variations, therefore, tend almost always to diminish the value of a money rent.

因此，这种变化几乎总是会降低货币租金的价值。

This degradation, therefore, in the value of the money rents of colleges, has arisen altogether from the degradation in the price of silver.

因此，大学货币租金价值的下降完全是由白银价格的下降引起的。

Though the real value of a corn rent, it is to be observed, however, varies much less from century to century than that of a money rent, it varies much more from year to year.

值得注意的是，尽管谷物地租的实际价值在各个世纪之间的变化远小于货币地租的实际价值，但每年的变化却大得多。

The old money rents of colleges must, according to this account, have sunk almost to a fourth part of their ancient value, or are worth little more than a fourth part of the corn which they were formerly worth.

根据这种说法，大学的旧货币租金必须几乎跌至其古代价值的四分之一，或者只比它们以前价值的四分之一高一点。