make the payments

基本解释

If you don't make the payments on time, the interest rate you pay is probably higher than normal.
如果你沒有及時償還，你很可能得付比平常高得多的利息。
They had to pay their own lenders, of course, but that wasn't a problem -- there was always someplace to borrow more money with which to make the payments.
儅然，他們是必須要還債的，但那時還錢不成問題，因爲反正還有地方能借到更多的錢償還舊債。
If it hurts you every month to go over the bills and make the payments, then just set up automatic payments so that a fixed portion of your income goes towards paying debt.
如果每個月去查賬款付款讓你覺得很麻煩，那就設定一個自動每月付款，這樣你收入中的一個定額就會自動地拿去償還債款。

That was the last day the government said it had enough money to make all of its payments.
In exchange, the United States agreed to make yearly payments to the tribe.

In other words, someone might not be able to make the payments on their debt.
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Pretty soon, he can no longer fund his on-going expenses or make the payments on his debt.
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