Given the risk in Citi's loan book, that ratio needs to rise even though taking it higher could eat a massive hole in fourth-quarter earnings, and thus deplete its capital.

鉴于花旗集团贷款帐面的风险，这一比例需要显著提高，即便这可能会给银行第四财季业绩带来巨大亏空，并因此大量损耗银行资本。

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Shell has been trying to spend its way out of that hole by running the industry's biggest capital budget of $30 billion to $33 billion a year.

壳牌甚至通过行业内最大的年度预算——300亿到330亿美元，来试图弥补这个巨大的丑闻漏洞。

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The formation of Outsourcing Network is a gradually evolution process. The evolution of Outsourcing Network is realized through the co-act by enterprise's social capital and structural hole.

资源外包网络的形成并非一蹴而就，而是一个渐进演化的过程，且在很大程度上是在企业社会资本的推动和结构孔的拉动共同作用下实现的。

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There was no capital hole at Lehman, he told the Commission in his own testimony on Wednesday.

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Believers in China's banking system will say this not only fills the capital hole but creates room for yet more growth ahead.

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More definitively, the Bank of England says that the banks will not be able to fill the capital hole through retaining earnings, or via the profits they generate.

BBC: How big is the 'material' hole in banks?