They said, would you sign a contract that if you had this loss the contract would pay you a certain amount of money?

他们是这样说的，你会签署一个合约,上面约定了，当你发生损失,你会得到合约中约定的赔偿金？

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Again, there was a loss of confidence in the time of an economic crisis and people wanted to withdraw their money from the banks.

此外,在经济危机时期,投资者对银行失去信心,他们希望把钱从银行取出来

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