The pay freeze is highly symbolic at a time of economic crisis with about 11 million people out of work and a banking system that is seizing up.

在这个1100万人失去工作和一个银行系统结业的时刻，冻结支付这一行动具有高度的象征意义。

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Wall Street's troubles came as a freeze-up in credit markets threatened to clog the global financial system.

华尔街的问题源于可能危机全球金融系统的信贷紧缩。

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The cooling system can, of course, freeze up in very cold weather.

冷却系统在很冷的天气，当然可能冻结起来。

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But it has the potential to really freeze up the global financial system, and that is as scary as it sounds.

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The Obama administration made much the same assessment of the still plunging economy, continued freeze up of the financial system, and need for continuing the unprecedented government intervention in the free market system.

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The government is already rushing through emergency measures to shore up the health system's finances, including a freeze on hospital budgets and doctors' fees and cuts in medicine prices.

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