It was not a disease or a war or an election that plunged the economy into crisis, but a combination of bad lending decisions and the excessive leverage of Banks at the heart of the financial system.

使经济陷入危机状态的并非是疾病、战争或选举，而是金融中心体系的失败借贷决策以及银行的过大金融杠杆作用共同作用的结果。

youdao

An earlier downgrade would have likely gone a long way toward at least mitigating or diffusing the magnitude of the crisis.

如果在更早时间下调评级，有可能对缓和这场危机的程度与范围起到很大作用。

youdao

China is not at risk of an Italian-type crisis (or a Greek type) because it doesn't have foreign debt and it has exchange controls. So that's not going to happen.

中国不会出现意大利式的危机(或是希腊式危机)，因为它既没有外债，同时还实行汇率控制。所以这样的一幕不会上演。

youdao

Are we at a point of -- are we at a point or near a point of crisis in Pakistan?

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

But the Tories fell short of offering a clear way out of the economic crisis, or at least a clearer one than the government.

ECONOMIST: The Conservative Party

To be clear, this downgrading of the UK's growth prospects cannot be laid at the door of the eurozone's crisis - or at least only a part of it can.

BBC: Sluggish UK economy means slower Lloyds revival