北岩银行新任管理层也不见得比原管理层更出色（北岩银行曾经是一家老迈、毫无生气的住宅抵押贷款提供商，而上届管理层将其创新性地成功转型为证券化巨头并因此获得了巨大荣誉）。
The bank's new bosses may yet prove to be no better than its old (who were once feted for their innovation in transforming a sleepy old building society into a securitisation dynamo).
事实上，北岩银行是这场危机中惟一一家出现内部资金崩溃的大型英国银行，这显示，它的问题具有特殊性与内部性，并不普遍，也就不是其它机构的错。
The fact that it is the only significant UK bank whose financing imploded during the crisis demonstrates that its problems were specific and home-grown, not generic and so the fault of others.
北海道位于日本列岛最北部，河野家的农场就在北海道的岩见沢市，占地17英亩，种植水稻、小麦、红豆和卷心菜。 60岁的河野大爷说：“我家的农场就快跨了。”
“This is the end of the road for my farm,” said Mr. Kono, 60, who grows rice, wheat, red beans and cabbage on 17 acres of farmland here in Iwamizawa, on Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost main island.
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