They understood the potentiality of human beings, their limitations and the predicament in which they live.

因为他们深知人的潜能,极限以及人类生活的困境

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When the difficult time comes, they will try to survive by themselves.

一旦遇到困境，他们会选择自保。

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They were lending to banks that were in trouble and the--so we'll give them a good rate; that's what they used to do.

他们向处于困境的银行贷款,并且-所以，我们要给他们一个好的比率；,这就是他们过去经常做的。

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What they do is they do an experiment where somebody is in trouble.

他们做了一个实验,有人陷入了困境。

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If they start demanding then we're in trouble.

如果他们开始要求，那么我们将会陷入困境。

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Troubled banks then who have this the problem banks have now is they have these securitized mortgages that they've bought and the homeowners are defaulting on the mortgages now.

于是出于困境中的银行,现在银行的问题在于,他们持有自己买的,证券化按揭贷款,而房屋持有者却,对抵押借款拖欠。

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It's still--they can make losses for a long time before they're in trouble, so presumably there won't be a problem, but in principle there could be and so that's the kind of issue that we have now.

在陷入困境之前的很长一段时间内,他们可以承受亏损,也可以假设不会有任何问题发生,但是原则上讲是有可能会出问题的,这就是我们面临的现状

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