由于一年内通膨高达几个百分之七八百，很多银行资产负债表根本无法判读。

With inflation at several hundred per cent a year, many Banks' balance-sheets were hard to decipher.

所以两个人的钱加起来，距阿尔贝所要的那笔数目还差七八百毕阿士特。

Thus seven or eight hundred piastres were wanting to them both to make up the sum that Albert required.