Conscious that a faraway and costly war doesn't play well with voters, incumbent Gordon Brown insists the troops are fighting to keep Britain safe "We have got to be clear that we cannot allow terrorists to have territory in the world that then they use as a base to attack the United Kingdom."

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Northern Rock, which was a building society in the United Kingdom, had a sudden bank run in September 2007.

北岩银行,是英国的一家建屋互助会,在2007年9月突然出现银行挤兑

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The other kinds of depository institutions that have developed are called thrifts and they really started from a movement in the United Kingdom.

后来发展起来的其他存款机构,都统称为"储蓄机构",这些机构的产生源自英国的一场运动

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We had inflation rates in the United Kingdom on the order of 20% a year and people were asking ? what is going on in the UK?

我们在英国有,每年20%的通货膨胀率，然后人们还在问,英国正在发生什么？

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