Its a joke; it was the investment Banks that created this mess with their putrid mortgage-backed securities and other debt-exotica.

开个玩笑；它是投资银行们用他们唬烂的按揭担保证券和其他异域风情贷煮得这一锅粥。

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Suddenly, it felt that its hard-earned seat on the UN Security Council had been turned into a joke, and NATO's enlargement looked like encirclement.

突然间，它感到它在联合国安理会辛苦赢得的席位变成了一个笑话，而北约东扩看起来就像个包围圈。

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Britain's trains rank alongside its weather as a standing national joke, but that hasn't stopped people flocking to them over the past decade.

英国的铁路与天气一起并列属于标准的国家笑料，不过这并不影响过去的十年里人们拥入火车。

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But while the magazine's mission may be earnest, its name is "a joke, " as Editor in Chief Vladimir Yakovlev puts it.

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The financial reform bill finally signed into law last July was so watered down by the time of its passage as to be a joke.

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Smil calls my assessment a cruel joke, presumably for its failure to empathize with unemployed and underemployed Americans, by considering value before job creation.

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