The first is money. Luring statisticians away from the fleshpots of high finance means paying them well.
第一就是资金，要避免那些统计员受到金钱物质的诱惑就得付以高薪。
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Yet by many measures it remains as richly endowed as in ancient times, when the Hebrews pined for its fleshpots and Herodotus dubbed it the gift of the Nile.