Their capital is all locked up in property.

他们把所有资金都搁死在地产上了。

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Scores of people there and in other areas, including Douma, a suburb of the capital, Damascus, have been locked up.

当地和其他地区（包括多马，位于首都大马士革的郊区）的许多人民已被限制行动。

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Six men who've been locked up in total isolation for over 500 days to simulate a mission to Mars have emerged smiling from their capsule in the Russian capital Moscow.

在俄罗斯首都莫斯科，被完全隔离500天模拟登火星计划的六名男子微笑着走出密封舱。

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Several principal roads in and around the capital were locked down by government troops in recent days amid threats by Al-Shabaab to launch deadly attacks.

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Not only does the sagging, unstable dollar create the nominal illusion of bank health, that the dollar remains historically weak means that limited capital necessary to fund company and job creation is still locked up in the houses on which dead-banks walking teeter.

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