“就像是给陷在困境中的玩家扔了一大堆的工具，”他说，“然后看我们会怎么做。”

"It is like throwing a lot of tools into the pit," he says, "and seeing what we do with them."

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而一旦危机发生，我们没有一个能及时把我们的集体资源动员起来，以协助陷在困境中的经济体的制度。

Once the crisis occurred, we had no institution to mobilize our collective resources to help economies in distress in a timely manner.

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很多住房的卖主仍陷在一场经济衰退的困境中。

Many home sellers remain stuck in a recessional rut.

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