They usually talk about it as the "lost decade," where Japanese banks were not liquidated but they were not really in business.

他们在谈论它的时候称之为“垮掉的十年“,在这十年里，日本银行并没有破产,但是他们也没有真正在做生意。

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People have long thought that these kinds of things happen only in Japan but that's not true at all; it's happening right now in the U.S.

人们一直认为,这种事情只会在日本发生,但这种想法一点儿也不对；,它现在正发生在美国。

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