Maybe they’re wrong, of course, or maybe that’s a pretext offered to squelch a threat to their corporate paymasters.
可能他们错了,当然,也可能那只是发出对他们公司金主威胁一个的序幕。
Neither of Greece's two paymasters, the Europeans and the IMF, are considering withholding cash long enough to allow a chaotic default.
这两个希腊的出纳员,欧洲央行和IMF,都不打算把这笔款项扣留到出现混乱的违约情况为止。
America has let it be known that, despite Mr Karzai's proven deftness in shirking tasks his foreign paymasters regard as essential, it is now prepared to get tough.