When your elderly relative needs to enter some sort of long-term care facility—a moment few parents or children approach without fear—what you would like is to have everything made clear.

当你年长的亲戚需要进入某种长期的护理机构时——这时父母或子女都害怕处理这个问题——你要做的是弄清楚所有事情。

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I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure.

我知道我有驾驭语言的才能和直面令人不快的现实的能力。这一切似乎造就了一个私人的天地，在此天地中我能挽回我在日常生活中的不得意。

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Perhaps mindful that it could do without more bad publicity of the “vampire squid” sort, it renegotiated the terms of a loan facility that would have triggered a $1 billion payment if CIT went bust.

或许人们能注意到，在没有更多的诸如“吸血鬼鱿鱼”这样的负面宣传的情况下，Goldman Sachs是可以做成功的。 Goldman Sachs重新商议了一项贷款安排，如果CIT破产了，这项新的贷款安排将引发10亿美元的付款条件。

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The point is that Italy's bond yield - the implicit interest rate it pays - is unlikely to fall decisively below the catastrophically unaffordable 7% unless and until the eurozone demonstrates that there is a bailout facility (of some sort) that has sufficient resources to lend to Italy if investors refuse to do so.

BBC: France squeezed by markets

By ditching its longstanding rule about lending only to commercial banks and extending this facility to investment banks, the Fed is in effect admitting that it faces a different sort of financial system one in which dealers pose as much of a threat to stability as lenders.

ECONOMIST: JPMorgan Chase takes over