Their ratings of corporate debt may have held up well, but they were way off in structured securities, not a lot better in sovereign debt, and now their municipal-bond ratings, too, are under fire.

他们对公司债券的评级倒还好说，但是对于结构性债券就不那么上道了，主权债券也好不到哪儿去，而最近他们对于市政债券的评级又被口诛笔伐。

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Thanks in part to lower unemployment rates than America, British homeowners are not being forced to offload their houses at fire-sale prices.

因为英国失业率低于美国，这产生部分影响，英国的房主不会勉强廉价出售他们的房子。

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They must be holy to their God and must not profane the name of their God. Because they present the offerings made to the Lord by fire, the food of their God, they are to be holy.

要归神为圣，不可亵渎神的名，因为耶和华的火祭，就是神的食物，是他们献的，所以他们要成为圣。

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They were not paid to do this. They earned their money at other jobs, but dropped what they were doing when the fire bell rang.

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