Gieve was getting the same message as Lomas: Lehman was at risk of going down.

基弗接到的消息与洛马斯相同：雷曼有倒塌的风险。

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When he woke in the morning, just as Sants, Gieve and Darling had suspected, the financial markets were in freefall.

当他早晨醒来时，正如桑茨、基弗和达林所担心的那样，金融市场一落千丈。

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The Bank of England announced that Sir John Gieve would step down early from his job as deputy governor, in which he is responsible for financial stability.

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It also emerged that Sir John Gieve, the deputy governor in charge of financial stability, who came in for criticism for the central bank's poor response to the crisis at Northern Rock, will leave his job early, in 2009.

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"The banks became very overextended, not just in lending on property, which we all know about, but in this case, for example, buying businesses in Mexico about which, it turned out, they knew too little, " Sir John Gieve, former deputy governor of the Bank of England told the BBC.

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