So, you're having a good year this year maybe-- it looks that way now-- and you think you can't afford it, but just think how bad it will be if it's a bad year.

也许对你来说,今年年景不错,起码现在看起来是这样的,你只是觉得买不起保险,那么一旦歉收,你的处境会有多糟呢

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So people that are being kicked out of their apartment, or they can't afford a place to live,

所以，针对那些房屋被没收的人，或者是买不起房的人，

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The idea was that a lot of people can't afford a house -let's all get together and pool our money -in a Building Society or Saving and Loan Association -and then we'll loan out to some of us to buy the house.

当初的想法是,很多人都买不起房子,那我们就把钱凑在一起,放到一个建房互助协会或储贷协会里,然后向我们中那些要买房的人发放贷款

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So Kurt Russell and his friends attend a small private college, which cannot afford to buy a computer.

所以Kurt，Russell和他的朋友,参加了一个小的私立学院，那里买不起一台电脑。

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These mortgages were given out to people that couldn't afford them and today you have what you call subprime mortgages--subprime paper They issued against this paper stuff called mortgage-backed security. They securitized them and these things are all floating around now.

我们发放这些抵押贷款给那些买不起房子的人,所以现在你们看到了一种你们叫做,次级抵押贷款的金融工具--次贷票据,他们把这种票据叫做,有抵押证券，他们把有抵押证券证券化,这些证券现在在市场上被多次交易，广为流通。

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