The team built up a safe cushion of two goals in the first half.

那支球队上半场射进两球，奠定了稳操胜券的基础。

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When an extra capital cushion was needed to protect depositors and other creditors, these hybrid instruments could not provide it without the bank first defaulting.

当需要额外缓冲资金保护储户和其他债权人的时候，这些混合工具若在银行没有破产的情况下是无法提供这笔资金的。

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At first, he sat on a cushion, cursing the school.

起先，他坐在一个垫子上面，嘴里诅咒着学校。

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Playing with a big cushion after a 4-0 win in the first leg at home last week, Bayern beat Barcelona 3-0 in the second leg Wednesday night on goals by Arjen Robben in the 48th minute and Thomas Mueller in the 76th around Gerard Pique's own goal in the 72nd.

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The first element was to lower interest rates to cushion the economy.

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And that has helped cushion some of the tough stuff that happened in the first six months of this year, including the effects on oil prices as a consequence of what happened in the Middle East as well as what happened in Japan.

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