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。
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.