In fact, research budgets were tight then and actually now, but still, these things sat around collecting dust.

事实上， 研究预算当时和现在都很紧张，但这些东西仍然积满了灰尘。

We spend more in a week on gasoline here than we spend on the entire energy research budget.

我们在这里一周花在汽油上的钱比花在整个能源研究预算上的还多。

They also denied having any financial incentive to deny benefits, pointing out that the disability-compensation budget is separate from the research budget and that the two budgets do not affect each other.

他们还否认有任何经济动机来拒绝提供福利，指出残疾补偿预算与研究预算是分开的，这两个预算不会相互影响。