This has clearly been the case with the expansion in consumer credit instruments, but the benefits from this expansion seem to have far outweighed the costs.

这毫无疑问会伴随着消费信贷工具的扩张而出现，但是，扩张带来的好处貌似要远胜于其负面影响。

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He took some false teeth, still mounted in their plaster mold, out of the glass case and put on the table a fistful of instruments which he arranged in size order, as if they were on display.

他从玻璃盒子里取出些假牙，都是还套着石膏模的，又把一堆仪器按大小顺序摆在桌上，跟搞展览似地。

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Health workers who are HIV positive are banned from performing most surgery or dental treatment in case they cut themselves with their instruments and infect patients with their blood.

目前，HIV病毒阳性的医护人员被禁止从事大部分外科或牙科治疗，以防他们使用仪器时割破皮肤，导致血液传染。

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Remember, those were the pseudo insurance policies that a lot of financial institutions bought to protect themselves from mortgage-backed securities and other credit instruments in case they went south.

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Either they note the context of the preceding sentences or they infer the meaning in isolation by knowing certain rules about the real world in this case, that boxes are bigger than pens (writing instruments) but smaller than pens (playpens), and that bigger objects cannot fit inside smaller ones.

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