First, there was a widely spread housing bubble, not just in the United States, but in Ireland, Spain, and other countries as well.

首先，房地产泡沫波及范围很大，不只是在美国，还包括爱尔兰，西班牙，以及其他许多国家。银行不负责任的发放贷款使得泡沫越来越膨胀。

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You could search forever in Ireland, but you'd never find a leprechaun.

你在爱尔兰无休止地找也不会找到一个小老头精灵。

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I told him, you were successful in Ireland, but this is different...

我告诉他，在爱尔兰问题上你是成功的，但现在有所不同。

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But late blight was also the cause of the potato famine in Ireland in the middle of the eighteen hundreds.

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She was born in Ireland but Professor Gorn found that the year was eighteen thirty-seven.

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If it were windy in Spain but not in Ireland, current would flow in one direction.

ECONOMIST: Power transmission

In both countries, but particularly in Ireland, there has been savage devaluation of an internal sort - wages and livings standards of workers have been slashed to a far greater extent than in the UK, which has improved the competitiveness of their businesses.

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But in Northern Ireland politics is seen as a zero-sum game: if one side gains, it stands to reason that the other must have lost.

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