They then empowered these local elites to collect rents and taxes.

然后，他们授权这些地方精英收取租金和税收。

In reality, it costs way more to run your own restaurant than it does to sit back and collect rent.

在现实中，运行自己的餐厅比坐下来收取租金更费钱。

Is it wise to collect the rents?

去收租 这样好吗？

Said she came to collect her three months' back rent.

说她是来收三个月的房租的。

I shall collect the rents myself on Tuesday.

我周二亲自去收租。

He won't be able to collect the six monthly rents.

他没法去收这六个月的租了。

And she collected her own rents just this last week.

她上周还亲自收了租。

Some big firms, it is true, have been collecting rents, including in big sectors such as health care.

的确， 一些大公司一直在收取租金，包括医疗保健等大行业。

So in our case, we collect rents from our airline partners, and we generate rents through our commercial concessionaires.

因此，就我们而言，我们向航空公司合作伙伴收取租金，并通过商业特许经营商产生租金。