The deal was announced in June, but since then Nokia executives are said to have been fretting over potential hidden liabilities from the bribery scandal.

然而因“贿赂丑闻”所致，自6月计划宣布起，诺基亚主管方面一直忧心于西门子内部潜藏的财政负债。

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The liabilities are an essentially hidden obligation.

这是一些隐藏很深的负债。

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If they uncover hidden liabilities, the government will cut the price accordingly (by up to 2 billion koruna).

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There is a problem, however, if somebody else buys the funeral home and fails to account for all those hidden liabilities.

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One who is sceptical is Gustavo Franco, a former central-bank president, who points out that many states and cities still have big hidden liabilities, for example, in their pension schemes.

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