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

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。

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Lehman Brothers' European business was acquired by Nomura of Japan for a "nominal" amount in September 2008, and the bank recently moved its staff to a new building farther west of Canary Wharf.

2008年9月，日本野村证券以象征性的价格收购了雷曼兄弟银行的欧洲业务，该银行最近将全体员工都搬迁到了距离金丝雀码头以西较远的一栋新的大楼里。

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Japan didn't fix its leaky roofs when the sun was shining prior to the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings.

在2008年雷曼兄弟控股倒闭(Lehman Brothers Holdings)之前，日本没有趁艳阳高照时修补已经破漏的屋顶。

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"The headwinds on this economy from restructuring - and the restructuring process still has a long way to go - will be around for some time, " says Russell Jones, chief economist at Lehman Brothers Japan.

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