a sum of money

基本解释

He is saving a sum of money to buy a home for his family.
他正積蓄一筆錢以便買一幢住宅供全家居住。
Economists were long puzzled, for example, by the routine outcome of a game in which one player divides a sum of money between himself and a competitor, who then decides whether the shares are fair.
擧個例子，經濟學家們被一個遊戯的常見的結果所睏擾，在此遊戯中，一個遊戯者在他與另一位玩者之間分一筆錢，然後他決定每一份是否公正。
In it, two players (who do not actually meet) are given a sum of money. One of them then divides the money and gives whatever fraction he chooses to the other.
有一個遊戯叫“分派者”：把一筆錢給素未謀麪的兩個人，指定一個人，讓他隨便劃出一部分給另一個玩家。

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