So what banks offer is liquidity -the ability to borrow short even though the loans that are made are long-term.

而银行就提供了流动性,即接受短期存款,但可以发放长期贷款的能力

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Interesting. Even though the market seized up very dramatically afterwards and we had some of the most difficult short-term financial consequences of that failure?

有意思，尽管市场严重失灵,我们面临着,许多短期的,非常严重的后果？

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In short,even though it's true that nobody can die my death for me, this isn't some deep insight into the special nature of death.

简单地说，即便没人能够经历我的死亡，这也不是关于死亡本质的深刻见地。

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Even though the deposits are short-term and the depositor can get the money at any time, the depositor is earning interest of a level that can only be made on long-term loans.

即使是短期存款,存款人可以随时取走存款,存款人也可获取仅从长期贷款中,才可得到的利息水平

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Your banker understands that your business can't pay the money back and that the bank has a reputation in the community of helping business people, so they won't ask for the money even though it's a short-term loan that they made to you.

他会理解,你的公司可能无法还钱,在业界里银行向来,有帮助企业家的美名,所以他们不会要求你还钱,即使他们借给你的是短期贷款

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