to foot the bill

常見例句

A state whose ship was not attacked, and whose only involvement with the incident was as rescuer, might balk at being asked to foot the bill for lengthy and costly proceedings.
船只沒有被攻擊過，或者只是扮演救援角色的國(guó)家，在被要求為冗長(zhǎng)而代價(jià)不菲的訴訟程序買單時(shí)，都可能變得躊躇不決。
Embarrassed by Sigma Olomouc's 2-5-5 record*, putting it 13th in the 16-team Czech League, team officials ordered their players to foot the bill for tickets to the next game against Sparta Prague.
捷克球隊(duì)奧洛姆克西格馬最近戰(zhàn)績(jī)?yōu)?勝5平5負(fù)，在有16支球隊(duì)參加的聯(lián)賽中排名第13，備感難堪的俱樂部官員因此命令球員為下一場(chǎng)對(duì)布拉格斯巴達(dá)隊(duì)的比賽球票買單。
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The Sudanese government, which twice imprisoned and released him without charge, wants him gone and even offered at one point to foot the bill.
蘇丹政府曾兩次對(duì)他關(guān)押又無條件釋放，甚至一度主動(dòng)為他支付費(fèi)用，只是想讓他離開這里。

"Finally,because of this law, the American people will never again be asked to foot the bill for Wall Street's mistakes.
"I just want to have some rules in place so that when these guys make dumb decisions, you do not end up having to foot the bill.

Russia even got the American taxpayer to foot the bill through IMF and other loans.
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But law firms and corporations no longer want to foot the bill for that.
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And rich societies are better able to foot the bill for treatment and medical advances.
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