“如果有人认为汉克·保尔森能够促使美联储救助雷曼，答案是‘不可能’，”他说。

"If someone thinks Hank Paulson could have made the Fed save Lehman Brothers, the answer is, 'No way,'" he said.

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但是雷曼已不具备这样的能力——尽管保尔森说，他曾亲自请求其他公司购买一部分雷曼的不良资产，并且努力劝说另一家银行收购雷曼。

But Lehman could not - despite what Mr. Paulson described as personal pleas to other firms to buy some of Lehman's toxic assets and efforts to persuade another bank to acquire Lehman.

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保尔森的发言人拒绝对获利发表评论，不过他说：“我们建立可以做得到的仓位，因为英国金融服务监管局规定的。”

A spokesman for Paulson refused to comment on the profit but said: "We made our position available because the FSA requested it."

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