More broadly, Mr. Geithner is concerned that continental European countries were late to recognize the debt problems of Greece and were even later to ask the IMF for help and expertise.

在更大层面上，盖特纳担心欧洲大陆国家没有及时认识到希腊的债务问题，而在请求IMF伸 出援手和提供经验方面则更是为时已晚。

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Ask Lehman Brothers, or Greece.

可以去问问雷曼兄弟，或者希腊。

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Along the way I'm attempting to also to answer the question that people always ask me when they understand I'm a historian about Greece and if they have any interest in the subject.

那时人们知道我是个希腊史学家,如果他们对希腊史感兴趣,他们就会问我一些问题,我也会试着去回答他们

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In the case of Greece, ask we have written before, let it implode.

FORBES: What Is Going To Happen To Europe?

Fotis Kouvelis, the Democratic Left leader, still insists that Greece will ask its European partners for an extra two years to implement the new austerity package.

ECONOMIST: The Greek bail-out

As I've written before, this has the ability, on any given day, to provoke a drain of liquidity from the Greek banking system, forcing the Bank of Greece to ask for levels of Emergency Liquidity Assistance that the ECB just cannot countenance.

BBC: Euro talks: The last signal before the storm?