美联储官员正在为快速出售贝尔斯登公司给银行业巨头摩根大通以挽狂澜于既倒的行为进行辩护。

Federal officials are defending their actions to prevent the failure of Wall Street's Bear Sterns quickly selling to banking giant JP Morgan Chase.

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“快速阅读实际上是不可能的。”美国南佛罗里达大学的科学家伊丽莎白·肖特指出。她说那些声称自己可以教别人如何快速阅读的人，通常是通过出售课程和书籍来赚钱。

"Speed reading is not actually possible," said Elizabeth Schotter, a scientist at the University of South Florida, U.S. Schotter pointed out that people who say that they can teach others how to speed read are usually doing it to make money by selling courses and books.

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因为贝尔的做法就象是将很多鸡蛋放进了一个篮子里，即放入抵押支持的证券里，当房价跌落时，这些鸡蛋快速地腐烂，不可能出售。

Bear had put many of its eggs in one basket-mortgage-backed securities-and these were fast turning rotten, and impossible to sell, as house prices tumbled.

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So, you'd have a whole bunch of people selling securities down there and they could vacate quickly if the authorities challenged you.

接下来,你雇了一群人,在这间地下室里帮你出售证券,如果政府想要发难,他们可以快速撤离

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