Until rates rise, the cost to the Banks of unwinding them is high enough to act as a drag on disposals.

在利率上涨之前，银行作为拖延工具为其松绑所付出的成本非常高。

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If you take a pebble with a radius of about one centimeter and you throw it off a high building, it will reach a speed which will not exceed 75 miles per hour because of the air drag.

如果拿一个半径是，1厘米的小卵石，从高楼上扔下去，它的速度因为空气阻力，不过超过每小时75英里。

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If I jump from a tower which is 100 meters high I will be weightless for 4.5 seconds ignoring air drag.

如果我从100米的楼上跳下去，无重量时间大概是4。5秒，忽略空气阻力不计。

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It seems that same union had secretly found a high-powered lawyer to drag Whitman through the mud and, of course, also backed her rival Jerry Brown.

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