It is a very old expression. Hot water was used five hundred years ago to mean being in trouble.

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And I believe this game is covered in some detail in the Watson textbook, or something very close to it is, if you're having trouble.

我记得在沃森写的教材里介绍过,或者就是类似的内容,如果你没听懂可以回去看课本

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They wanted to eliminate the stigma it used to be embarrassing to borrow at the discount window because the discount rate would because it would be an admission that the bank is in trouble.

他们希望消除这种瑕疵,过去在贴现窗口借钱,常常被认为是尴尬的事,因为贴现率将,因为这将是处于困境的银行的,进入权。

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Yes. The point is, it's not going to work, and she caught both of them, impressive, it's not going to work because iters left is already negative, it's just going to skip the whole loop, and I'm in trouble, so thank you for catching that.

是的，重点是，程序不会运行的，她发现了两个错误，很令人敬佩，程序不会运行,因为iters，left已经是负数了，它会跳过整个循环，然后就有麻烦了，谢谢你提出这个问题。

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Well,the only people who would buy it are people who trust the bank that supports it, so in effect, the bank is promising to bail out the SIV if it should get in trouble.

只有人们相信设立SIV的银行的时候,他们才会去买SIV发行的票据,所以实际上,银行已经作出承诺,如果SIV陷入麻烦,银行会出面解决

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