Now, there are a couple of ways to think about indebtedness and I'd like you to tell me which one is correct as applied to the nation.

那么，究竟是什么导致国家债台高筑呢,我有两套思路，麻烦你们告诉我,哪个更能说明现状。

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So that's a lot of indebtedness.

可以想象这个债务量是个什么概念了。

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There's a wonderful work of literary criticism -- I mentioned it last time --on Milton's indebtedness to Spenser in the book by John Guillory called Poetic Authority.

有一篇很棒的文学评论-,上次我提到了--关于弥尔顿对Spenser的感激,在约翰·久乐锐所著《诗人权威》中。

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The other is I take a mortgage, I buy a house, I pay it off, I go into a heavy indebtedness but with a good rational reason and it all works out in the end.

另一种情况是，我分期贷款买了一套房子，我还清了贷款，却债台高筑,这样，于情于理都能说通,而且，最终无事一身轻。

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You take total household debt and total federal debt and combine them, and you got a kind of national indebtedness 168% that's about 168 percent of GDP.

将美国所有家庭债务总额,加上联邦政府债务总额，得出整个美国的债务状况,整个债务量竟是GDP的。

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