This activity has occasioned some surprise since it is widely believed that the bank, carrying a large number of bad loans, is on the brink of collapse.

这一行为引起了一些意外，因为人们普遍认为，背负着大量不良贷款的这家银行正处于崩溃的边缘。

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He was fit enough: an outdoorsman raised in “awful” poverty in the Bitterroot mountains of Montana, after his family had lost their homestead in a bank collapse in the 1920s.

上世纪20年代全家在银行倒闭失去家宅后迁居到了比特鲁特山区，此后，这位野外活动专家便在“窘迫”的家境中长大。

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Amid recession and the contagion of a debt default, bank collapse or Greek departure from the euro, Europe’s single market would be in danger.

在经济衰退之际，债务违约蔓延之时，银行瓦解或希腊退出欧元区之间，欧盟单一市场将岌岌可危。

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Earlier this week, Secretary Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke also discussed with Congress another step which would enable the government to take control of major non-bank financial institutions threatened with collapse.

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In January 2012, Royal Bank of Scotland's former chief executive Fred Goodwin had his knighthood removed because of his role in the bank's near-collapse in 2008.

BBC: Sir Jimmy Savile after receiving his knighthood in 1996

The book gives us a glimpse into the greed and misjudgements of the people in charge that led to Lehman's spectacular demise and the far-reaching consequences of the bank's collapse.

BBC: This week: Culture and the crash

And, of course, because of the interconnected nature of the banking systems - with banks lending to each other - the collapse of a big bank in that way would wreak significant harm on contiguous banks.

BBC: Why banks are eurozone's fault line