The global corporate-bond boom is gathering steam as companies rush to take advantage of some of the lowest borrowing costs in history.

着各公司忙着利用有史以来最低借贷成本的机会，全球的公司债热潮开始升温。

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Banking has a long history of borrowing ideas from science - astronomer Edmund Halley was constructing mortality tables for the life assurance industry back in the 17th Century.

银行业从科学中借鉴经验的历史由来已久，例如天文学家埃德蒙·哈维在17世纪就为人寿保险业编制了死亡率表格。

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The history of English lexical expansion is one that is characterized with heavy borrowing and word formation.

英语词汇增加的历史特点是大量地借用外来词和通过构词法构成新词。

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To remind you, it is very hard to find any point in the history of British government borrowing when it has been cheaper for the government to borrow, even though it is also hard to find periods when the public finances have been in worse shape.

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At such times in history capital markets tolerated high levels of borrowing, at least for the victorious side.

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The problem is that the economic model that achieved the strongest and most consistent growth rate in reliably recorded history - a spending spree by consumers financed by borrowing from the great producing countries like China, Japan and Germany - is kaput.

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