For a social epidemic to occur, however, each person so affected must then influence his or her own acquaintances, who must in turn influence theirs, and so on; and just how many others pay attention to each of these people has little to do with the initial influential.
然而，要使社会流行现象发生，每个受到影响的人随后都必须去影响他们自己的熟人，而这些熟人又必须进一步影响他们自己的熟人，依此类推；而究竟有多少其他人关注这些受影响的人，与最初的影响力者关系不大。
These rules say they must value some assets at the price a third party would pay, not the price managers and regulators would like them to fetch.
这些规则规定，他们必须按照第三方愿意支付的价格来评估某些资产，而不是管理人员和监管者希望它们达到的价格。
Within weeks the world’s two biggest auction houses, Sotheby’s and Christie’s, had to pay out nearly $200m in guarantees to clients who had placed works for sale with them.
几周之内，世界上最大的两家拍卖行苏富比和佳士得不得不向那些将作品委托给他们拍卖的客户支付近2亿美元的保证金。
readers threatened to pay less
读者威胁要支付更少
Politicians have repeatedly "backloaded" public-sector pay deals, keeping the pay increases modest but adding to holidays and especially pensions that are already generous.
政客们多次对公共部门的薪酬协议进行"后置加码"，保持薪资增长适度，但增加了假期和尤其是已经相当优厚的养老金。
例句取自历年考研英语真题，翻译为机器生成，仅供学习参考。