The essence of this transaction is: lend us more money, or lose more money which you have already lent.

这一交易的本质就是：要不借我们更多的钱，否则就会失去更多你已经借出的钱。

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The deal on offer is: lend us more money, or lose most of the money you have already lent.

这一交易的本质就是：要不借我们更多的钱，否则就会失去更多你已经借出的钱。

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But customers may lend out any given title only one time for a total of 14 days and they cannot read it on their own Nook while it is lent.

但是顾客一次只可以把任一本书借出去14天，并且在书外借期间他们不能在自己的Nook上阅读它。

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So the so-called Project Merlin lending figures, due to be published next month, will be scrutinised, to see whether Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, Royal Bank of Scotland and Santander have lent to business what they promised the Treasury they would lend.

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Once our creditors come to the conclusion that they have lent beyond our capacity to repay, they will be very reluctant to lend more.

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This so-called moral hazard argument against rescuing those who have borrowed too much or lent too much is in play again right now - with Germany's reluctance to lend its ample financial resources to Greece and Italy, to keep them well away from the brink of collapse during this lending strike by commercial providers of finance.

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