They had debts running into thousands of pounds.
他们的债务达到了几千英镑。
Falling asset prices meant that many Banks and firms had debts that outweighed their assets.
下降的资产价格意味着很多银行和公司拥有的负债超过了资产。
One Icelandic firm had debts of 1 trillion kronur ($5.3 billion) to the three big domestic banks, more than all the banks’ equity combined, he said.
一家冰岛公司欠了三大国内银行总计1万亿冰岛克朗（合53亿美元）的债务，这比所有银行资本加起来还多，他说。
The firm had accrued debts of over $6m.
该公司已积欠了600多万元的债务。
Northern creditors recoiled as they increasingly doubted the ability of the blighted economies to repay the debts they had amassed.
北方的债权人越来越怀疑受到冲击的经济体能否偿还已积累下来的债务，不愿借钱。
He had managed to buy a small flat and was paying down his debts when the 1998 crisis struck.
到1998年危机爆发时，他已经偿清几乎所有债务，并购得一处小型公寓。
This would have been made easier had restructuring of older debts been carried out before the recent bail-outs.
若是在近期出台纾困方案之前，就着手对旧债务进行重组，事情会容易得多。
Most analysts had expected PCCW would use the entire proceeds to repay the company's debts.
大部分分析员都预期电盈会把全部收益用作偿还债务。
The value of the peso had been declining precipitously, undermining Mexico‘s ability to borrow money or to repay existing debts.
比索急剧贬值，损害了墨西哥的借贷或偿还现有债务的能力。
42neither of them had the money to pay him back, so he canceled the debts of both.
因为他们无力偿还，债主就开恩免了他们两个人的债。
Rio instead raised cash to pay down hefty debts with a rights issue and also announced an iron ore tie-up with BHP (which itself had tried, and failed, to acquire Rio in 2008).
力拓却通过增股的方式，用现金偿还巨额债务，同时公布与必和必拓组成铁矿石联盟(必和必拓曾经试图这样做，但失败了，2008年力拓反过来找必和必拓，后者欣然接受)。
Worse still, these debts had maturities of between one and three years, rather than the World Bank's generous 30-year terms.
更糟糕的是，相对于世界银行三十年到期的债务而言，这些债务通常都是一到三年到期。
Twenty years ago, the average American household's debt was 83 percent of its income; by a decade ago, that had crept up to 92 percent; but by late 2007, debts were 130 percent of income.
20年前，美国家庭的平均债务占收入的83%，10年前增加到92%，而到2007年年末，债务上升到130%。
Once, it happened when we bought a house. I thought we had no debts outside of a car loan.
有一次，我们买了一栋房子，我本以为我们只欠一辆汽车的贷款，再没有其他欠款。
The problem is that such an approach might not have much impact until bad debts drove many institutions to the brink of failure and they had nowhere else to turn.
但问题是这样一种方法在坏账迫使许多机构走到倒闭的边缘并且无路可走之前，可能会没有多大效果。
Looser fiscal policy will stretch the public finances of countries that went into the downturn with big debts and budget deficits and have since had to fund bank bail-outs.
宽松财政政策将让那些已进入衰退，有着大量债务和预算赤字，并为银行提供援助资金的国家公共开支进一步加大。
After all, Japan had none of the credit excesses of America and much of Europe: rather than borrow in recent years, Japan's companies have paid off debts, while households sit on a pile of savings.
毕竟日本不存在像美国或欧洲大部分地区那样的超额信贷：近年来，日本公司并没有举借外债反而已经清偿了债务，而住户们坐拥大量储蓄。
As the tale goes, Nicholas had heard that a father in the town planned to sell his three daughters because his debts had been called in by pitiless creditors.
随着故事的流传，尼古拉斯听到镇上的一位父亲因为负债而受到无情的债主的逼债将他的三个女儿卖掉。
Britain stands out in another respect, too: its unemployment rate has risen by far less than in other places that had also racked up big mortgage debts.
在另一方面英国也与众不同：其失业增长率远低于其他国家(这些国家也解决了大的按揭债务问题)。
Businessmen and rich landowners had put their money in Confederate bonds, now completely worthless. Confederate war debts would never be paid.
商人和富裕的地主把他们的钱都存放在南方邦联的银行里，现在一分钱也不值了。
Falling asset prices could bring back an old problem that many thought had been conquered: bad debts in the banking system.
资产价格下跌说不好会让许多人认为业已医好的旧病—银行系统呆坏账—复发。
It also had the benign effect of reducing corporate borrowing costs and thus making it less likely that companies will default on their debts.
这也有正面影响，减少公司借贷成本，公司债券违约的可能性也就减少。
For years, they have been able to incur debts in a currency that was far stronger, and had much lower borrowing costs, than the old national ones the euro replaced.
就是因为此前多年来，这些国家长期利用较其原有货币强势却又相对借贷成本低廉的欧元举债。
The European country that has come closest to doing an Argentina is Iceland, whose bankers had run up foreign debts that were many times its national income.
欧洲国家中与阿根廷最相似的国家是冰岛，该国银行家所欠外国贷款数倍于该国的收入。
The European country that has come closest to doing an Argentina is Iceland, whose bankers had run up foreign debts that were many times its national income.
欧洲国家中与阿根廷最相似的国家是冰岛，该国银行家所欠外国贷款数倍于该国的收入。
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