如果把迪拜比作主权债务等级的北石，接下来的希腊或许就是贝尔斯登，而日本或许就是雷曼兄弟。

If Dubai is the sovereign debt equivalent of Northern Rock, then Greece might be its Bear Stearns and Japan its Lehman Brothers.

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在2007年，英国的房贷银行北石银行成了这个错误假设的第一个臭名昭著的牺牲者；在2008年，更多的银行也陷入这个泥坑。

In 2007 Northern Rock, a British mortgage lender, was the first spectacular casualty of this false assumption; many more Banks have been caught out in 2008.

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这是失败的跨行贷款规定带来的副产品，也导致了北石公司（Northern Rock）莫名其妙的崩溃，以及过分奢侈的营救。

This is because a secondary failure of regulation impeded inter-bank lending and caused the bizarre collapse and extravagant rescue of Northern Rock.

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