Strauss-Kahn said the pace of global recovery depends significantly on the effectiveness of measures to dispose of bad loans currently on the books of major banks.

VOA: standard.2009.04.26

This sentence, which by the logic of the argument should be demonstrating to us the importance of bringing bad books to justice, seems to be doing something else.

这个句子，在逻辑上来讲，论点应该是,为我们说明把不好的书审判的重要性，但现在却是其他的效果了。

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Sometimes he didn't believe they were bad books.

虽然它们并不被认为是坏书。

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I think it's kinda...you do it to both but right now, tax increase in 2011, 2012, 2013, etc. as what's on the books would be very bad for the economy.

双管齐下当然不太现实,但目前来看，要是从2011年开始，按照经济理论，而一直往后增税的话,对经济可谓百害而无一利。

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