This also came from a U.K. movement called the Building Society Movement, which spread to the U.S.

储贷协会也是源自英国的一场运动,叫做建房互助协会运动,同样也传到了美国

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Northern Rock was a British building society that was investing in subprime paper in the U.S.

北岩银行是英国的一家建房互助协会,它曾在美国投资次级债券

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Savings and Loans are the same as Building Societies, but the idea--the original idea and also the general idea today -is that these are banks set up for small savers in order that they can buy a house.

储贷协会和建房互助协会是一回事,其初衷以及现在的一般理念是,这些银行的建立是为了,让小额储蓄者买得起房子

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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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