The army says up to 15,000 troops in Swat are moving slowly to minimize the collateral damage that helped doom previous operations.

VOA: standard.2009.05.07

Now, if that happens these homes are the collateral to the banks for all these mortgages and we're going to have -and probably do have already--a recession.

如果那种情况发生了的话,这些房子是银行对房屋抵押贷款的唯一担保品,那我们将会面临,-很可能现在正在面临着--经济衰退。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

There are lots of costs, so you want to have a loan-to-value ratio, which is sufficiently low, that the collateral will cover the value of the loan.

那是一大笔开销,因此你要设定一个足够低的,贷款价值比率,使得抵押物价值能够为贷款提供保障

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"What you do in a crisis is you want a lender of last resort who is going to lend freely against good collateral,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.22

Now Mr. Milton took some risks when he separated himself from his cash and lent money to his clients, or lent more money to his clients than the collateral, the gold, was actually worth. And the motive for that risk, of course, the motive for that investment, was the expectation of a profit.

但是弥尔顿先生却冒着把自己和他的现金,也丢了的风险，或者借出去的钱比担保财产还要多，他这么投资的动机是，希望获得收益。

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And a medal was placed around the neck of Muhammed Yunus, the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, who pioneered a way to lift people out of poverty through a community banking program that gives small loans to entrepreneurs with no collateral.

VOA: standard.2009.08.12