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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And during the siege there were sixty-five balloon flights carrying two and a half million letters, weighing a grand total of 10,000 kilograms, so roughly about 20,000 pounds.

在巴黎被围期间,共放出了六十五个热气球,带走了多达两百五十万封信,合计重量约有一万公斤,也就是两万磅左右

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They also had--they were--back then, in the 1920s, they were called balloon payment.

上世纪20年代有一种,称为期末大额偿还的贷款方式

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