The house is mortgaged to the bank for twenty thousand dollars.

这房子以两万美元押给银行。

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Whenever I go to the bank near my house, the cashiers are either fooling around or keeping whole queues of people waiting by chatting to the customer at the front about their holidays.

每当我去我家附近的银行时，收银员要么在闲逛，要么和前面的顾客聊他们的假期，让整条队伍的人等着。

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Then bank agents tried to talk the customer into refinancing, using the house as collateral.

然后银行代理人再说服客户用他们的房子作抵押进行再融资。

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Ten years later, the group had raised enough money to buy a historic bank building to house the Hall of Fame.

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You might say,for example, that your heart was in your mouth when you asked a bank to lend you some money to pay for a new house.

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"Every single house on the West Bank which was occupied in 1967, including East Jerusalem,is illegal,".

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As the banks who sold on these mortgages were not putting up their own money as collateral, they no longer used their own in-house bank managers to assess the income of their borrowers and check the real value of the house they were giving a mortgage on.

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Other advantages are also fading, notably parts suppliers' access to low-cost funds from the house bank.

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In other words, the bank fears a house price crash that leaves homeowners trapped in negative equity.

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