Gates told Asian defense officials they were all familiar with North Korea's tactic of creating a crisis and then demanding payment to end the crisis.

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At the end of the loan upon your payment of the principal and of sufficient additional interest, John Milton, Sr., the goldsmith, would return to you the gold that you had entrusted to him.

在贷款期限到期时，在你支付了本金,和额外的利息后，金匠约翰弥尔顿会把你托付,给他的金币还给你。

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The loan-to-value ratio--well it's not so much the loan--the maturity was short and the balloon payment at the end that they changed.

贷款价值比率,不,就是期限太短了,期末大额偿还也是罪魁祸首

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And get rid of this balloon payment thing at the end -that was a dumb idea.

并取消了期末大额偿还的还款方式,期末大额偿还是很愚蠢的做法

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It used to be that mortgages had what's called a balloon payment at the end.

曾有一段时间,抵押贷款中有期末大额偿还制度

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